Everything is better in color. Even better if it is HDR. In this post, we’ll provide an overview of what is happening with color in GTK, without diving too deeply into the weeds of colorimetry and color science. The high-level goals of this effort are to enable proper handling of HDR content and color-managed workflows. … Continue reading "The colors of GTK"| GTK Development Blog
We first introduced support for dmabufs and graphics offload last fall, and it is included in GTK 4.14. Since we last talked about, more improvements have happened, so it is time for another update. Transformations When you rotate your monitor, it changes its aspect from landscape (say, 1920 x 1200 to portrait (1200 x 1920). … Continue reading "Graphics offload continued"| GTK Development Blog
GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year. The new renderers have much improved support for fractional scaling—on my system, I now use 125% scaling instead of the ‘Large Text’ setting, and I find that works fine for my needs. Magical numbers Ever since 4.0, GTK has … Continue reading "On fractional scales, fonts and hinting"| GTK Development Blog
As we often do, a few members of the GTK team and the wider GNOME community came together for a two-day hackfest before FOSDEM.| GTK Development Blog
GTK 4.14 brings various improvements on the accessibility front, especially for applications showing complex, formatted text; for WebKitGTK; and for notifications.| GTK Development Blog
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We just had a GTK hackfest at FOSDEM. A good time for an update on whats new and exciting in GTK, with an eye towards 4.18.| GTK Development Blog
We first introduced support for dmabufs and graphics offload last fall, and it is included in GTK 4.14. Since then, some improvements have happened, so it is time for an update.| GTK Development Blog
Some of us in the GTK team have spent the last month or so exploring the world of linux kernel graphics apis, in particular, dmabufs. We are coming back from this adventure with some frustrations and some successes.| GTK Development Blog
Recently, GTK gained not one, but two new renderers: one for GL and one for Vulkan.| GTK Development Blog
The plans set out in this post supersede those that were publicised after the Toronto GTK+ hackfest in June 2016.| GTK Development Blog