The directfb backend has been removed from GTK + 2.90.6 to 2.90.7

From GTK +-2.90.7 configure -- help we can see:

--with-gdktarget=[x11/win32/quartz] select non-default GDK target

There is no directfb in the gdktarget as in GTK +-2.90.6:

--with-gdktarget=[x11/win32/quartz/directfb] select non-default GDK target

We can download this directfb supported version GTK +-2.90.6 from http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.90/gtk+-2.90.6.tar.bz2

And we can see news file:

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.90.6 to 2.90.7==============================================* Various deprecated APIs have been removed: - the GtkWidget::draw-border style property - the GtkEntry::state-hint style property - the GtkTreeView::row-ending-details style property - the GtkRange::trough-side-details style property - the GtkRange::stepper-position-details style property - the GtkRange::activate-slider style property - the GTK_CALENDAR_WEEK_START_MONDAY option - the GtkFrame::shadow and GtkHandleBox::shadow properties - the GtkTextView::page-horizontally signal - the GDK_WINDOW_DIALOG window type - the GTK_SELECTION_EXTENDED selection mode - the GtkProgressBarOrientation, GtkAnchorType and GtkVisibility   enumerations - GtkDialog separators, including the GtkDialog::has-separator   property, including setter/getter, the GTK_DIALOG_NO_SEPARATOR   flag and the GtkMessageDialog::use-separator style property - gtk_status_icon_set/get_blinking - gdk_window_et_deskrelative_origin - The GtkItem class has been removed. Its functionality has   been merged into is sole subclass, GtkMenuItem* The GtkIconView::orientation property has been renamed  to ‘item-orientation‘* GtkProgressBar and GtkCellRendererProgress implement GtkOrientable  now, and their ‘orientation‘ property have been split into  a ‘orientation‘ property of type GtkOrientation and a boolean  ‘inverted‘ property* GDK no longer exports variables: gdk_threads_lock, gdk_threads_unlock,  gdk_threads_mutex and gdk_display are no longer available* GTK no longer exports variables: gtk_major_version, gtk_minor_version,  gtk_micro_version, gtk_binary_age, gtk_interface_age have been  converted to functions. gtk_debug_flags has a getter and a setter.  Misc. variables that had been exported by the semi-private text  API have been removed.* All GDK keysym names have been changed from GDK_keysym to GDK_KEY_keysym;  the previous names are still available in gdkkeysyms-compat.h.* GtkWrapBox is a new container, which distributes its children  over multiple rows/columns* GTK+ now uses standard icon names when looking up stock icons* More widgets and cell renderers have been converted to support  width-for-height: GtkCellRendererText, GtkAccelLabel, GtkCellView,  GtkComboBox, GtkMenu, GtkMenuItem* Button boxes are now semi-homogeneous.* The directfb backend has been removed* Bugs fixed:  77669 GtkWrapBox for gtk itself, not gimp?  84188 "Dialogue" button widths should not be homogenous 414712 gtk_container_set_focus_child leaks widget 527499 FileFilter combo becames too wide 528257 File selector and stock string problems 605186 Use G_DEFINE_INTERFACE macro 614006 File chooser crashes when creating a new folder... 616401 Noneffective gdk_keymap_map_virtual_modifiers in early use 626710 GailScaleButton calculates wrong value for minimum increment 627028 Marked state of calendar day is not accessible 627139 gtkfilechooserentry shows completion progress tooltip on first show 627445 Removal of GtkWidget::draw-border breaks gtk_widget_queue_draw() 627580 GtkFontSelection: don‘t notify the non-existent "font" property 627643 gtkaboutdialog gettext problem 627828 Drag and drop between treeviews in different window groups broken... 627843 set_active_iter doc: remove restriction on path length 627867 tests/testsocket is broken 627912 misprint in the desc. of "hover-expand" and "hover-selection"... 628160 introspection: Update to new scanner API 628308 docs referencing non existing icons 628656 _gdk_windowing_get_startup_notify_id memory leak 628807 Add more "reserved for expansion" fields to GtkWidgetClass 628808 Warn if a widget requests minimum size > natural size 628884 Use a bitfield for Widget::private_flags, ::state, ::saved_state 628935 add gtk_radio_button_join_group method for bindings 629110 gtk_spinner_accessible_get_type always returns null* Translation updates Arabic Armenian Brazilian Portuguese British English Bulgarian Danish Estonian French Galician Hebrew Hungarian Indonesian Kazakh Norwegian bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk Portuguese Serbian Slovenian Spanish Telugu Traditional Chinese

 

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