java-gnome 4.1.2 (30 Aug 2012) =============================== _Applications don't stand idly by._ After a bit of a break, we're back with a second release in the 4.1 series covering GNOME 3 and its libraries. Application for Unique ---------------------- The significant change in this release is the introduction of GtkApplication, the new mechanism providing for unique instances of applications. This replaces the use of libunique for this purpose, which GNOME has deprecated and asked us to remove. * **`org.gnome.gtk.Application`** * **`org.gnome.glib.Application`** * **`org.gnome.glib.ApplicationFlags`** * **`org.gnome.glib.ApplicationCommandLine`** * `org.gnome.unique.Application` * `org.gnome.unique.Message` * `org.gnome.unique.Response` Thanks to Guillaume Mazoyer for having done the grunt work figuring out how the underlying GApplication mechanism worked. Idle time --------- The new Application coverage doesn't work with java-gnome's multi-thread safety because GTK itself is not going to be thread safe anymore. This is a huge step backward, but has been coming for a while, and despite our intense disappointment about it all, java-gnome will now be like every other GUI toolkit out there: not thread safe. If you're working from another thread and need to update your GTK widgets, you must do so from within the main loop. To get there, you add an idle handler which will get a callback from the main thread at some future point. We've exposed that as `Glib.idleAdd()`; you put your call back in an instance of the Handler interface. * **`org.gnome.glib.Glib`** * **`org.gnome.glib.Handler`** As with signal handlers, you have to be careful to get back from your callback as soon as possible; you're blocking the main loop while that code is running. Miscellaneous improvements -------------------------- Other than this, we've accumulated a number of fixes and improvements over the past months. Improvements to radio buttons, coverage of GtkSwitch, fixes to Assistant, preliminary treatment of StyleContext, and improvements to SourceView, FileChooser, and more. Compliments to Guillaume Mazoyer, Georgios Migdos, and Alexander Boström for their contributions. * **`org.gnome.gtk.Switch`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.FileChooserButton`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.ProgressBar`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.Style`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.StyleContext`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.StyleProperty`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.StyleRegion`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.JunctionSides`** * **`org.gnome.gtk.RegionFlags`** java-gnome builds correctly when using Java 7. The minimum supported version of the runtime is Java 6. This release depends on GTK 3.4. AfC