ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.2.0

[Johan Dahlin]

I am pleased to announce version 2.2.0 of the Python bindings for GTK.  
The new release is available from ftp.gtk.org or ftp.gnome.org and its 
mirrors:
    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.2/pygtk-2.2.0.tar.gz

GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on POSIX 
systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X (provided that the X server 
for MacOS X has been installed).  It provides a comprehensive set of GUI 
widgets, can display Unicode bidi text.  It links into the Gnome 
Accessibility Framework through the ATK library.

PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK library for use in 
Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as 
managing memory and type casting.  When combined with PyORBit and 
gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.

Like the GTK library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is 
suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications.  It 
is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose 
scripts up to large full features applications.

PyGTK now requires GTK >= 2.2 and Python >= 2.2 to build.

It includes a number of changes since the last pygtk
release; Lorenzo has provided a short summary of changes included, which
I've included below. We'd really appreciate testing and bug reports on
this release; please take the time out to download and test it to ensure
it works for your application[s]. Bug reports, as always, should go to
Bugzilla; check out http://pygtk.org/developer.html and
http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for links to posting and querying bug
reports for PyGTK.

Help in fixing or advising on the blockers is also much appreciated.

Lorenzo's summarized change list follows:

    - Better support for gtk.gdk.Pixbuf integration with Numerical
      arrays (Tim Evans)
    - Added gtk.gdk.Eventkey.hardware_code (Johan)
    - Added gtk.binding_entry_remove and gtk.accel_group_connect (Gustavo)
    - Don't allow reading non readable properties (James)
    - Better support for Pygtk generation tools (codegen, m4 macros,
      h2def, Makefile.am ...) (James, Jon Willeke, Xavier, Johan)
    - Allow None return values in gtk.GenericCellRenderer.start_editing (Johan)
    - Better and more flexible support for TreeModel and TreeView API:
          - Implemented gtk.TreeSelection.get_selected_rows
          - Allow None iter for gtk.GenericTreeModel.iter_n_children
            (Don Allingham)
          - Allow None parent for gtk.TreeMode.iter_children (Benjamin Cama)
          - Allow None iterator values in gtk.TreeModel (John Ehresman)
          - Implemented the gtk.ListStore.reorder method (Johan)
          - Swap parent and child argument for gtk.TreeModel.get_parent (Johan)

    - Allow None arguments for gtk.Widget.modify_* (jkluebs at luebsphoto.com)
    - Added support for some GTK+ 2.2 APIs (James):
          - Better support for gtk.Clipboard: set_with_data
          - Better support for gtk.gdk.Window: set_geometry_hints,
            peek_children, set_icon_list, for gtk.gdk.Screen:
            get_setting; and for gtk.Display: get_window_at_pointer
          - gdk.Pixbuf.get_formats() returns a list of dictionaries
          - More functions wrapped for GdkDisplay and GdkScreen
          - Removed gtkgl bindings

    - And lots of bug fixes: gdk.event_get_axis (Seth), distutils (Alif
      Wahid), mem leaks, gtk.Menu.popup (Gustavo)

A Bonsai link to view the actual checkins follows:

    http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=gnome-python%2Fpygtk&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2003-09-02&maxdate=2004-04-01&cvsroot=%2Fcvs%2Fgnome


-- 
Johan Dahlin
johan@gnome.org