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Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day

People often arrive on the #clutter channel1 with troubles building Clutter from SVN: dependencies, installation in non-common prefixes, etc.
Luckily, GNOME has Jhbuild, which is easy to set up2 and also allows custom modulesets for handling ... [More] dependencies inside a separate root - to avoid messing up your box.
So, if you want to play with Clutter, here’s [...] [Less]

Two Quick Bits.

Emmanuele landed in trunk the first taste of JSON support for easy scripting of user interface layouts and animations in clutter. More details here.
Pippin of GEGL fame hacked up a pretty cool input mechanism using clutter.

Clutter 0.4.2

good news everyone!
straight from the OH Towers a new, stable release of Clutter is now available for everyone to use and play with. as usual, the tarball is available here, ready to be compiled. here’s the list of changes:

Removed the ... [More] gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h include from clutter-stage.c
Fix the RGB textures on GL/ES
Add more checks for detecting the PowerVR [...] [Less]

Get Yer Ruby On.

Following on from the announce of Vala bindings, now thanks to the work of Neil Roberts clutter SVN also contains initial 0.4 bindings for Ruby Language.
Grab via;

svn co http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/clutter/trunk/bindings/rbclutter rbclutter

And Browse here.

Vala Bindings have landed.

Alberto Ruiz committed Vala bindings for Clutter 0.4 today. There currently available in svn, grab via;

svn co http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/clutter/trunk/bindings/clutter-vala/clutter clutter-vala

The Vala website describes Vala ... [More] as

a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications [...] [Less]

Clutter 0.4.1 is out.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we are pleased to announce a new release of the stable branch.
The 0.4.1 release lowdown;

New thread safety API (makes clutter thread ‘aware’, like GTK )
Many timeline and timeout pool ... [More] fixes/improvements
Tiled texture fixes
Various other minor bugs squashed

For more details check the Mailing list announcement, the ChangeLog, the NEWS and README files.
As [...] [Less]

Even More Clutter

Third announcement! The bindings for Perl and Python are ready and rocking, in SVN:

svn co http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/clutter/branches/clutter-perl-0-4/
svn co http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/clutter/branches/pyclutter-0-4/

and ... [More] as tarballs here (for Clutter-Perl) and here (for PyClutter). Both require the 0.4.0 release of Clutter core and of the integration libraries.
Caveats for the bindings - the Perl bindings do not support the [...] [Less]

More Clutter

good news, everyone!
after the 0.4.0 release, the second phase of this new stable cycle of Clutter is the release of the various integration libraries. there hasn’t been much movement, but bugs have been fixed and these new releases work and ... [More] require the 0.4.0 Clutter core release.

clutter-cairo
a reference counting issue has been fixed, so now the [...] [Less]

Clutter 0.4.0 Released.

Good news! Clutter 0.4.0 is finally out of the door. This new stable release adds a number of fixes to the 0.3.x releases, many API doc updates and improvements, and;

Display DPI now honours on backends it can be queried.
Various big ... [More] endian related fixes.
ClutterBehaviourEllipse and ClutterBehaviourRotate API and internals improvements.
Add basic tslib support to eglnative backend [...] [Less]

The Irregular Clutter Update Companion #2

Clutter 0.4 release due any day now!
Clutter Toys videos. Neil put together a fine collection of captures of the various experimental clutter toys and uploaded to google video; (Usual disclaimers about capture frame rates being not fantastically ... [More] smooth.)
Table — a ’surface’ like demo/toy;

Woohaa — a simple video player;

Aaina — flickr picture viewer;

Flowers — A [...] [Less]