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Clutter 1.3.12 - developers snapshot

Submitted by Emmanuele Bassi, posted on 17 Aug 2010 - 05:05 - 0 comments

good news, everyone!

here's to you the sixth 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter.

Download

Clutter 1.3.12 is now available for download at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.3/

A mirror is also available here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.3/

SHA256 Checksums:

bad23d69867d8eb44e1d5f32475d38e0c243089126baa69a57644aacc50c3907 clutter-1.3.12.tar.gz
77c369856fb740593591b41fcc8d821362705cd30927b10dd31165f6f3cfe373 clutter-1.3.12.tar.bz2

Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Requirements

  • GLib >= 2.18.0
  • Cairo >= 1.6
  • Pango >= 1.20
  • Atk >= 1.7
  • OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
  • GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on:

  • GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
  • JSON-GLib >= 0.10

Release Notes

  • This is the sixth developers snapshot of the 1.3 cycle.
  • This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter.
  • Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter.
  • Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla.

What's new in Clutter 1.3.12

List of changes since Clutter 1.3.10:

  • New recipes in the Cookbook:
    • create and animate sub-textures
    • layout managers
    • scroll events
  • Set the ClutterTexture:filename property to also be readable.
  • Avoid layout cycles when creating ClutterLayoutMeta objects during the ::allocate implementation.
  • Add a ClutterTableLayout, a layout manager for tabular layouts.
  • Capture ENTER and LEAVE events on the stage within the ClutterDragAction.
  • Plug memory leaks.
  • Use g_object_notify_by_pspec(), if available, to speed up the emission of the ::notify signal on property changes.
  • Re-use the Cogl texture atlas for the CoglPango glyphs cache, and improve the performance with large font sizes.
  • Various fixes in the Materials comparison and inheritance.
  • Add the ability to associate a user program to a material.

Many thanks to:

Neil Roberts
Elliot Smith
Robert Bragg
Damien Lespiau
José Dapena Paz
Owen W. Taylor

Have fun with Clutter!

Clutter 1.3.10 - developers snapshot

Submitted by Emmanuele Bassi, posted on 17 Aug 2010 - 05:00 - 0 comments

good news, everyone!

here's to you the fifth 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter.

Download

Clutter 1.3.10 is now available for download at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.3/

A mirror is also available here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.3/

SHA256 Checksums:

5a6f2d08f2c394616b07977b40b7dae3e190f4a2308a42984872ab15e3e8354f clutter-1.3.10.tar.gz
ff4c0960e8f89b6a3e2e0db0c502c91d9c9beafcf01e319b70db4c3c052f1799 clutter-1.3.10.tar.bz2

Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Requirements

  • GLib >= 2.18.0
  • Cairo >= 1.6
  • Pango >= 1.20
  • Atk >= 1.7
  • OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
  • GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on:

  • GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
  • JSON-GLib >= 0.10

Release Notes

  • This is the fifth developers snapshot of the 1.3 cycle.
  • This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter.
  • Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter.
  • Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla.

What's new in Clutter 1.3.10

List of changes since Clutter 1.3.8

  • Fix a locale-dependent conversion from double to string when generating ARBfp programs for the materials.
  • Use the XKB extension on X11 platforms to convert between hardware keys to key symbols.
  • Documentation fixes in the API reference.
  • More recipes, with videos and full examples, in the Cookbook.
  • Add localization support and initial translations of error messages that might be visualized in a user interface.
  • Improve debugging output.
  • Fix build of the GLX backend on OSX.
  • Multiple fixes to the native OSX backend.
  • Add support for 3D textures in Cogl.
  • Fix shader-related issues and leaks in the new Material code.
  • Unify GLSL support in the GL and GLES 2.0 drivers.
  • Allow specifying an hint to disable clearing the stage before each paint cycle.

Many thanks to:

Neil Roberts
Roman Kudiyarov
Elliot Smith
Robert Bragg
Chris Kühl
Chris Leick
Nate Stedman
happyaron
raven
Øyvind Kolås

Have fun with Clutter!

Clutter @ GUADEC 2010: slides

Submitted by Emmanuele Bassi, posted on 16 Aug 2010 - 03:25 - 0 comments

GUADEC 2010 was a great conference: we had lots of fun, and lots of productive discussions with the rest of the GNOME community.

if you weren't in Den Hague, here are the slide decks for the Clutter-related talks:

the slides were created using Pinpoint, which is available in the Toys repository.