GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)

Date:
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:28:03 +0000

Description:
Matthias Clasen has published a short summary of the GTK hackfest held prior to FOSDEM2026 . Topics include
discussions on unstable APIs, a decision to bump the C runtime
requirement to C11 in the next development cycle, limiting changes in
GTK3 to crash and build fixes, as well as the state of
accessibility: On the accessibility side, we are somewhat worried about the state
of AccessKit . The
code upstream is maintained, but we haven't seen movement in the GTK implementation. We still default to the AT-SPI backend on Linux, but
AccessKit is used on Windows and macOS (and possibly Android in the
future); it would be nice to have consumers of the accessibility stack
looking at the code and issues. On the AT-SPI side we are still missing
proper feature negotiation
in the protocol; interfaces are now versioned on D-Bus, but there's no mechanism to negotiate the supported set of roles or events between
toolkits, compositors, and assistive technologies, which makes running
newer applications on older OS versions harder.

======================================================================
Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1058024/


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet UK HUB @ hub.uk.erb.pw (1337:1/100)