Over the past few weeks I have gradually updated the widget-specific chapters in the Programming with gtkmm book, and I'm mostly finished now. This became a lot easier after I gave up trying to keep inline example code in sync with the real source files. Unfortunately DocBook XML currently has no way to include example […]

danielk's regexxer may be a killer-app. It does multi-file search-and-replace, using regular expressions. It shows the power of GUIs by giving visual feedback every step of the way - it tells you which files will be affected, highlights the search matches and gives a preview of the changed text. No more worrying about whether you […]

gtkmm has branched for 2.2, so we can add the GTK+ 2.2. API additions. It should happen quite quickly. I also updated our bugs page. so people can work on the future API break. I think every GNOME sub-project should have a page like that.

I finally uploaded the random photos from the gtkmm get-together […]

I'm sure we've missed stuff, and we'll want to make API changes. But that will not be the end of the world - the patches can wait until the next API break. We don't expect the C++ APIs to stay stable as long as C libraries. Every time I mention API stability it seems I […]