ANNOUNCE: gedit-plugins 2.18.0

Hi all,

gtksourceview-1.90 is now available.

gtksourceview is a library that provides a widget for source
code display
and editing, derived from Gtk's TextView, and used by gedit
and nemiver,
among others.

This releases marks the first public step of the 2.0 line,
after quite a
long time of background work from great people like Marco
Barisione,
Yevgen Muntyan and Emanuele Aina.

The greatest changes in this release are the introduction of
a new, smarter
highlighting engine (which is context aware, and so allows
much more
niceties than the old one) and a theming support (easier
configuration of
colors it uses, better fit in dark themes).

Also, the printing support has been removed (thus dropping
the gnomeprint
dependency), since we currently expect people to implement
it on an
application basis using the new GtkPrint API, allowing much
more control.

But it comes along with an API/ABI break, and the new API is
not yet frozen,
so it can still change. So people developping apps should
stick on the old
gtksourceview 1.0 line, which lies in the gtksourceview-1-8
branch, unless
they want to experiment a bit. Both lines are parallel
installable.

We'd also *love* having early adopters and API feedback
(which is the reason
why the API is not frozen yet), as we are adapting gedit to
support this new
line, in order to make it even nicer 

Python lovers have not been forgotten: there is a new
'pygtksourceview'
module for them in SVN, which provides a 'gtksourceview2'
python module
(gtksourceview is reserved for gtksourceview 1). Same remark
as before,
the API is not frozen, and this module hasn't been released
yet.

And, last but not least, we are calling for help to enhance
both the
language description files (those need to be converted to
the new engine
and modified to use its capabilities) and to create new
themes (a 'gvim'
theme is being shipped now, but we'd *love* having a 'tango'
color theme).


News in 1.90.0
==============

This marks the road to GtkSourceView 2.0, and breaks the
API. It is still
considererd API-unstable.

* API update/break
* New highlighting and theming engines (Yevgen Muntyan,
Marco Barisione)
* GnomePrint-based print API removal

* Download
===========

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtksourceview/1.90/gtk
sourceview-1.90.0.tar.bz2
md5sum: 982a67ff00dd33742c2a77aec780a9ce

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtksourceview/1.90/gtk
sourceview-1.90.0.tar.gz
md5sum: 515e7687487a5d3fa309a33388ce562f

* Development
==============

gtksourceview is pretty active currently, finalizing what
will become
gtksourceview 2.0.

We are also in need of new/enhanced language description
files and color
themes.

So don't hesitate to have a talk with the gtksourceview team
on #gedit on
irc.gnome.org if you want to give gtksourceview some of the
love it needs


Hope you'll enjoy it!

--
Steve
http://tw.apinc.org


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