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1 Announcement

This is version 0.30.0 of the GNUstep GUI library ('gnustep-gui').

1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Library?

It is a library of graphical user interface classes written completely
in the Objective-C language; the classes are based upon Apple's Cocoa
framework. The library has been enhanced in a number of ways to take
advantage of the GNU system. These classes include graphical objects
such as buttons, text fields, popup lists, browser lists, and windows;
there are also many associated classes for handling events, colors,
fonts, pasteboards and images.

The GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts. The first part is
the front-end component which is independent of platform and display
system. This front-end is combined with a back-end component which
handles all of the display system dependent such as specific calls to
X/Windows. This design allows the GNUstep applications to have the
"look and feel" of the underlying display system without any changes to
the application, and the library can be easily ported to other display
systems.

The GNUstep GUI Library requires the GNU Objective-C compiler, the
GNUstep Base Library, the TIFF Graphics library, Independent JPEG
Group's libjpeg library, and a back-end component from the GNUstep
'Back' library.

Additional functionality may be enabled by installing additional
libraries. For example, to build the Cairo backend in the GNUstep Back
library, you will need to install Cairo.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '0.30.0'

This version adds parsing support for layout constraints, compilation
with MSVC and many new classes. Plus the usual bunch of bug fixes.

  • Add classes NSStackView, NSGlyphInfo.
  • Add more formal protocols to headers.
  • Add extra pixels so that tool tip doesn't overrun the window.
  • More improvements from Testplant.
  • NSSplitView support different divider styles.
  • Improve on Wayland support.
  • NSPopUpButtonCell attempt to fix deallocation and item selection.
  • NSImageCell fix refuse first responder.
  • Improve NIB and XIB unarchiving.
  • GSStandardWindowDecorationView fix resizing mode
  • Make resize bar notch themable.
  • NSButton add radio button behavior from MacOS 10.7.
  • Fix clicking on test attachment cells.
  • Add missing methods to GSLayoutManager.
  • Add NSLayoutConstraint parsing.
  • Add APPKIT_EXPORT_CLASS to support compilation with MSVC.
  • Remove libgnustep-gui_INTERFACE_VERSION.
  • Fix to build GSSpell in custom build dir.
  • Add all new header files to DocMakefile.
  • Fix memory leaks in NSView, NSTextView and NSBox.
  • Add placeholder string handling in NSTextField.m.
  • Apply userSpaceScaleFactor to title bar height when calculating
    offsets.
  • Add new constants from MacOS 10.14 to NSBezierPath.
  • Add README.md file.
  • Add helper methods in GSWindowDecorator protocol for pointer hit
    test on window decorations.
  • Improve support for 16 bit colour values in images.
  • NSTextStorage update signatures to match MacOS.
  • Add a preference to disable spellchecker.
  • Fix crash in JPEG reading.
  • Improve NSPopover and NSAccessibilityCustomAction.
  • Support ImageMagick version >= 7.
  • Add github workflow.
  • Add icon for speech synthesizer.

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?

The gnustep-gui-0.30.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core.

It is accompanied by gnustep-gui-0.30.0.tar.gz.sig, a PGP signature
which you can validate by putting both files in the same directory and
using:

 gpg --verify gnustep-gui-0.30.0.tar.gz.sig

Signature has been created using the key with the following
fingerprint:

 83AA E47C E829 A414 6EF8  3420 CA86 8D4C 9914 9679

Read the INSTALL file or the GNUstep-HOWTO for installation
instructions.

1.4 Where do I send bug reports?

Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep or send bug reports to
[email protected].

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