Useful things in newer versions

Windows

Windows 7

http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/pdc2008/pc43

TODO look up PDC 2008 talk "new shell user interface"

• new animation and text engine
• ribbon control (didn't this have some additional license?)
• LVITEM.piColFmt

Windows 8

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

GTK+

TODO what ships with Ubuntu Quantal (12.10)?

GTK+ 3.6

ships with: Ubuntu Raring (13.04)

• GtkEntry and GtkTextView have input purposes and input hints for external input methods but do not change input themselves
  • according to Company, we connect to insert-text for that
• GtkLevelBar
• GtkMenuButton
• GtkSearchEntry

GTK+ 3.8

ships with: Ubuntu Saucy (13.10)

Not many interesting new things to us here, unless you count widget-internal tickers and single-click instead of double-click to select list items (a la KDE)... and oh yeah, also widget opacity.

GTK+ 3.10

ships with: Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS)
GLib version: 2.40

• tab character stops in GtkEntry
• GtkHeaderBar
  • intended for titlebar overrides; GtkInfoBar is what I keep thinking GtkHeaderBar is
• GtkListBox
• GtkRevealer for smooth animations of disclosure triangles
• GtkSearchBar for custom search popups
• GtkStack and GtkStackSwitcher
• titlebar overrides (seems to be the hot new thing)

GTK+ 3.12

ships with: Ubuntu Utopic (14.10)
GLib version: 2.42

• GtkActionBar (basically like the bottom-of-the-window toolbars in Mac programs)
• gtk_get_locale_direction(), for internationalization
• more control over GtkHeaderBar
• GtkPopover
  • GtkPopovers on GtkMenuButtons
• GtkStack signaling
• gtk_tree_path_new_from_indicesv() (for when we add Table if we have trees too)

GTK+ 3.14

ships with: Debian Jessie, Ubuntu Vivid (15.04)
GLib version: Debian: 2.42, Ubuntu: 2.44

• gestures
• better GtkListbox selection handling
• more style classes (TODO also prior?)
• delayed switch changes on GtkSwitch

GTK+ 3.16

ships with: Ubuntu Wily (15.10)
GLib version: 2.46

• gtk_clipboard_get_default() (???)
• GtkGLArea
• proper xalign and yalign for GtkLabel; should get rid of runtime deprecation warnings
• better control of GtkListBox model-based creation (probably not relevant but)
• GtkModelButton (for GActions; probably not relevant?)
• wide handles on GtkPaned
• GtkPopoverMenu
• IPP paper names in GtkPaperSize (TODO will this be important for printing?)
• multiple matches in GtkSearchEntry (TODO evaluate priority)
• GtkStackSidebar
• GTK_STYLE_CLASS_LABEL, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_MONOSPACE, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_STATUSBAR, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_TOUCH_SELECTION, GTK_STYLE_CLASS_WIDE (TODO figure out which of these are useful)
• GtkTextView: extend-selection
• GtkTextView: font fallbacks

GTK+ 3.18

GTK+ 3.20

Cocoa

Mac OS X 10.8

• Foundation (full details)
  • NSDateComponents supports leap months
  • NSNumberFormatter and NSDateFormatter default to 10.4 behavior by default (need to explicitly do this on 10.7)
  • NSUserNotification and NSUserNotificationCenter for Growl-style notifications
  • better linguistic triggers for Spanish and Italian
  • NSByteCountFormatter
• AppKit (full details)
  • view-based NSTableView/NSOutlineView have expansion tooltips
  • NSScrollView magnification
  • Quick Look events; TODO see if they conflict with keyboard handling in Area
  • NSPageController (maybe useful?)
  • not useful for package UI, but may be useful for a new library (probably not by me): NSSharingService
  • NSOpenPanel and NSSavePanel are now longer NSPanels or NSWindows in sandboxed applications; this may be an issue should anyone dare to enable sandboxing on a program that uses package ui
  • NSTextAlternatives
  • -[NSOpenGLContext setFullScreen] now ineffective
  • +[NSColor underPageBackgroundColor]

Mac OS X 10.9

• Foundation (full details)
  • system-provided progress reporting/cancellation support
  • NSURLComponents
  • NSCalendar, NSDateFormatter, and NSNumberFormatter are now thread-safe
  • various NSCalendar and NSDateComponents improvements
• AppKit (full details)
  • sheet handling is now block-based, queued, and in NSWindow; the delegate-based NSApplication API will still exist, except without the queue
  • similar changes to NSAlert
  • return value changes to NSAlert
  • window visibility APIs (occlusion)
  • NSApplicationActivationPolicyAccessory
  • fullscreen toolbar behavior changes
  • status items for multiple menu bars
  • better NSSharingService support
  • a special accelerated scrolling mode, Responsive Scrolling; won't matter for us since I plan to support the scroll wheel and it won't
  • NSScrollView live scrolling notifications
  • NSScrollView floating (anchored/non-scrolling) subviews
  • better multimonitor support
  • better key-value observing for NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel (might want to look this up to see if we can override some other juicy details... TODO)
  • better accessory view key-view handling in NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel
  • NSAppearance
  • -[NSTableView moveRowAtIndex:toIndex:] bug regarding first responders fixed
  • view-specific RTL overrides

Mac OS X 10.10

Mac OS X 10.11

• NSLayoutGuide