On fractional scales, fonts and hinting

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...

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...

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. Improvements down the stack The GStreamer 1.24 release has improved support for explicit modifiers, and the GStreamer media backend in GTK has been updated … Continue...

GTK 4.14 brings various improvements on the accessibility front, especially for applications showing complex, formatted text; for WebKitGTK; and for notifications. Accessible text interface The accessibility rewrite for 4.0 provided an implementation for complex, selectable, and formatted text in widgets provided by GTK, like GtkTextView, but out...

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. This year, we were aiming to make progress on the topics of accessibility and input. Here is a quick summary of what we’ve achieved. Accessibility We agreed to merge the socket … Continue reading "GTK hackfest updates"