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Official account of the GTK project.

GTK is a general purpose graphical toolkit for a wide variety of environments, from desktop to mobile platforms. You can use GTK to build beautiful applications on Linux, as well as Windows and macOS, using one of the many programming languages that support it.

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2025-05-13 08:12:50

Matthias posted an update on the current state of Accessibility in GTK and GNOME on the development blog: https://blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/an-accessibility-update/
#gtk #gnome #accessibility #a11y

2025-03-29 13:46:36

GTK 4.18.3 is now available; this is a bug fix release of the stable branch of GTK, including fixes for Vulkan, accessibility, introspection annotations, HiDPI GL rendering on Windows, and macOS event handling.
You can read all the changes here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/a4033016969298dfedb5b96ae6fde41c332e3675
The main branch is now open for the next development cycle.
#gtk #gtk4

2025-03-15 15:35:24

GTK 4.18.1 is out! This is the first stable release of the 4.18 cycle, and includes a few last minute additions:
- fractional scaling support on macOS works again
- the Android backend uses GL rendering for top level surfaces
Plus, as usual, lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, and documentation updates.
You can download the release archive from the usual place: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk/4.18/
Or you can wait until your distribution of choice is updated to ship GNOME 48.
#gtk #gtk4 #gnome

2025-03-12 08:04:47

Are you doing something cool with GTK or the GNOME application development platform? Do you want to talk about it in front of the GNOME community? Then you have until March 16 to submit a talk proposal for GUADEC 2025!
https://events.gnome.org/event/259/
#gnome #GUADEC #GUADEC2025

2024-05-09 15:18:34

Reminder: instead of using StackOverflow for your questions about GTK and the GNOME software stack, use the GNOME Discourse instance:
https://discourse.gnome.org
You can also use it for applications and the overall GNOME desktop.
#gtk #gnome #development

2024-02-29 17:27:30

Congratulations to the KDE community for a new major release of the Plasma desktop environment!
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
#kde

2023-11-15 16:32:53

New blog post from Matthias Clasen: dmabuf, subsurfaces, and graphics offload for zero copy data transfer over the graphics stack coming to GTK 4.14: https://blog.gtk.org/2023/11/15/introducing-graphics-offload/
#gtk #gnome #linux #wayland #graphics

2023-10-25 14:30:41

What GTK app are you working on?
#gtk #libadwaita #gnome

2023-10-25 14:30:41

What GTK app are you working on?
#gtk #libadwaita #gnome

2023-06-22 13:53:43

- reply

It's important to note that more work is needed to improve the accessibility stack on Linux; if you want to contribute you can read the at-spi2-core developers documentation for an overview of the changes to the stack: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/at-spi2-core/devel-docs/index.html
We especially need more documentation on how ATs interpret the accessibility interfaces, and what kind of expectations should be satisfied by toolkits and apps.

2023-06-22 13:47:48

Matthias Clasen has written a post on the GTK blog about recent changes in the accessibility implementation of the toolkit, as well as improvements in the tooling planned for the 4.12 release: https://blog.gtk.org/2023/06/21/evolving-accessibility/
#accessibility #gtk #gtk4

2023-04-05 14:06:09

New post on the development blog, about the new GTK 4.11.1 snapshot, and its features: https://blog.gtk.org/2023/04/05/gtk-4-11-1/
- list view widget improvements
- texture scaling
- fractional scaling under Wayland