[clutter] [ANNOUNCE] Clutter 0.2.0

good news everyone!

after a tad more than six months, and much work in the SVN, Clutter
0.2.0 is finally out. grab it while it's still hot:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/
  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.2/

while you're at it, have a look at the spiffy new web site:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/
  http://www.clutter-project.org/blog/

for this release the NEWS file is quite big, reflecting the amount of
work that was done after the 0.1 release, last July:

Clutter 0.2 (2007-01-18)
========================

 * List of changes between 0.2 and 0.1
   o Bindings, GStreamer and GTK+ dependencies moved out of tree:
     now Clutter strictly depends on Xlibs, OpenGL and GdkPixbuf only.
   o Actors now have an initial floating reference; this means you
     don't have to explicitely unref them: every memory an actor
     allocates will be freed when the group containing the actor will
     be destroyed.
   o Add basic run-time detection of GL features.
     + Use GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB if available.
     + Attempt to set up sync to vblank (set CLUTTER_VBLANK=none to disable)
   o Add API for behaviours. A ClutterBehaviour is an object which
     drives a set of actors using one or more properties depending
     on the value of an "alpha" function.
     + Provide simple behaviours: ClutterBehaviourOpacity,
       ClutterBehaviourPath and ClutterBehaviourScale.
     + Provide simple alpha functions for ramps and sine waveforms.
   o Add fixed point API for embedded platforms with no FPU.
   o Add support for command line switches to Clutter, like debug
     flags and abort on warnings; also allow application to hook up
     into the initialisation sequence to add their own command line
     switches.
   o Add Pango GL renderer for Clutter, and use it to render text
     inside the ClutterLabel actor; this decrease texture memory
     usage.
   o Redo Clutter Label widget, using the new Pango renderer.
   o Clutter Textures do not store local pixbuf copy (of texture).
   o Redo group and actor scale/sizing API and functionality.
   o Add memory management API for ClutterColor, and string parsing.
 * List of bug fixed
   o #199 - Little group handling fix?
   o #198 - Detect NPOT support on more systems
   o #197 - Tiled textures are broken
   o #196 - Rebuild the examples when the library changes
   o #156 - clutter_actor_set_position not using the absolute size
   o #155 - Don't test for XInitThreads [Bastien Nocera]
   o #154 - Key presses not working in super-oh example [Bastien Nocera]
   o #152 - Misc fixes [Bastien Nocera]
   o #143 - Faulty ref-counting in clutter_group_remove [Frederic Riss]
   o #141 - Copy-pasto in clutter_media_set_volume [Frederic Riss]
   o #101 - No package 'x11' found -- wrong configure [Tomasz Torcz]
   o #98 - Enabling trails in super-oh crashes

and if this doesn't seem enough to you, today we released the GStreamer
integration library clutter-gst and the core bindings for both Perl and
Python:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter-gst/0.2/
  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter-perl/0.2/
  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/pyclutter/0.2/

if you want, you can help with the great plan for the 0.3 development
cycle:

  http://svn.o-hand.com/view/clutter/trunk/clutter/TODO

now go on: play with Clutter, file bugs and requests for enhancements
and help making Clutter rock even more!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi, ebassi@o-hand.com
OpenedHand Ltd.

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