Part II. API Breaks

gedit is a quite old piece of software (created in 1998, at the beginnings of the GNOME project), and as every software, the code evolves during its lifetime. So there are sometimes API breaks for gedit plugins, there are no API stability guarantees.

47 -> 48

46 -> 47

  • The GeditWindow::active-tab-changed signal has a different API: the tab parameter has been removed and the signal is also called when the active tab becomes NULL.

  • The GeditWindow::active-tab-state-changed signal has been removed. It was unused and was anyway there for convenience (it was not an essential API).

  • The GeditWindow::tabs-reordered signal has been removed. It was unused. Also, functions like gedit_window_get_documents() don't specify the order in which the objects are listed.

  • The GeditTab::drop-uris signal has been removed. You can use the GeditView::drop-uris signal instead (it is the same).

  • The gedit_utils_location_get_dirname_for_display() function has been removed.

  • The gedit_app_set_window_title() function is now private. The window title is handled by the gedit core and should not be altered by plugins.

  • The gedit_app_process_window_event() function is now private. The function should be only useful to the gedit core, not plugins.

45 -> 46

  • The gedit_window_get_side_panel() function now returns a TeplPanel.

  • The gedit_statusbar_new() and gedit_statusbar_set_window_state() functions have been removed.

  • The gedit_utils_set_atk_name_description() function has been removed.

44 -> 45

43 -> 44

3.38 -> 40

  • All previously deprecated APIs have been removed.

  • The GeditProgressInfoBar class has been removed, you can use TeplProgressInfoBar instead.

  • GeditDocument is now a subclass of TeplBuffer.

  • The GeditDocument::cursor-moved signal has been removed. You can use the TeplBuffer API instead.

  • The gedit_document_get_uri_for_display() function has been removed from the public API.

  • The GeditDocument:shortname property has been removed. You can use the TeplFile API instead.

  • The gedit_document_is_untouched() function has been removed. You can use the TeplBuffer API instead.

  • The gedit_view_set_font() function has been removed.

  • DEBUG_METADATA has been removed.

3.36.0 -> 3.37.1

  • All previously deprecated APIs have been removed.

  • The lockdown support has been removed (for the org.gnome.desktop.lockdown GSettings). So the gedit_app_get_lockdown() function has been removed.

  • The GBOOLEAN_TO_POINTER() and GPOINTER_TO_BOOLEAN() macros have been removed from gedit-utils.h.

  • The gedit_utils_get_current_workspace(), gedit_utils_get_window_workspace() and gedit_utils_get_current_viewport() functions have been removed because workspaces information is not available on Wayland.

3.34.0 -> 3.35.2

  • All previously deprecated APIs have been removed.

  • The GeditDocument:use-gvfs-metadata property has been removed. But there was anyway a warning for not using that property in a gedit plugin.

  • For gedit_document_get_metadata() and gedit_document_set_metadata(), the key names should now have the prefix "gedit-" with possibly an additional namespace for the plugin name, for example "gedit-spell-foobar". So the key names are now the same regardless of the operating system, and the key names should no longer start with "metadata::".

For previous gedit versions

See the Old API Changes wiki page.