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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:59:56 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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while many users assume from the name that this is GTK 2.x, and ,as such, just the next major revision of the original toolkit, it is in fact so different that applications can require considerable modification in order to build against GTK2.
GTK2, however, provides such a wide array of new functionality that these conversions are well worth the effort, and with [GNOME] 2.x built entirely upon GTK2, if an application is to fit in and avoid being replaced it's almost a requirement.
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+Some of the most noticeable improvements to the widgets in GTK2 (from an end-user's point of view, at least) is the built-in use of AntiAliasedFonts and much internationalisation (use of [Unicode]/multi-byte characters, and support for languages written right-to-left). These features are mostly achieved through the use of [Pango].
