Error Message in Glade 3.16.1 'Placeholder text' of object class 'Text Entry' was introduced in gtk+ 3.2.

Thu Jul 31 19:47:39 UTC 2014

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:34:43 -0700, mikey wrote:

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> style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div><span
> style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>I use
> gtkmm with the defualt GCC tool chain on Ubuntu, and I just upgraded
> from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS. </div> <div>I have Glade project
> file that uses gtk::TextEntry widgets. When I opened it in Glade after
> upgrading, I got this message when I tried to save the Glade file.</div>
> <blockquote> <div>[window1:frame1:box1:layout1:spinbutton3]
> <strong>Property 'Placeholder text' of object class 'Text Entry' was
> introduced in gtk+ 3.2.</strong> ]</div> </blockquote> <div>When I build
> and run the C++ project the text entry boxes also don't look right -
> widgets aren't rendered correctly and the labels I put up there are
> skewed. This was all working fine before the upgrade. Apparently the
> upgrade removed some of the newer gtk+ packages that I had installed - I
> can't retrace my steps now, but I did not build it from the source
> previously.
> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apparently <span
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> gtk+ 3.2.</strong> ]</span></span></span> is
> missing after Ubuntu 12.04-
>14.04 LTS upgrade
> - how can I install this
> package?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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libgtkmm-3.0-1 is at version 3.10.1 in Trusty and at 3.4.0 in Precise. 
The 3.0 number in the package name refers to GTK+ platform version, not 
the libgtkmm software library version. 

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