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@@ -1,34 +1,57 @@
-
-   Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.3
-
-you have downloaded version 2.3 of the GTK port of the 
-wxWindows GUI library.
-
-wxWindows no longer supports GTK 1.0 (as did some early
-snapshots) so that you will need GTK 1.2 when using it.
-GTK 1.2.6 or above is recommended although some programs 
-will work with GTK 1.2.3 onwards.
-
-More information is available from my homepage at:
-
-  http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-  
-and about the wxWindows project as a whole (and the MSW
-and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's 
-homepage at:
-
-  http://www.wxwindows.org
+   Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
+   -----------------------------
+
+You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
+
+It is required to use at least GTK+ 2.6 and some features are 
+only available when using GTK+ 2.8 or higher. Note that if you
+compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work
+with older GTK+ version down to version 2.6 as wxWidgets
+tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it
+will fall back to a generic implementation if these features
+are not present in the GTK+ version used.
+
+wxWidgets 2.9.4 adds support for GTK+ 3, which can be enabled
+with configure option --with-gtk=3. Note that this port is
+still in development and may have significant bugs or missing
+features, and should be considered experimental.
+
+wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement
+is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will
+probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps
+in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was
+that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated
+so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port 
+could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2.
+
+More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the
+other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the
+main wxWidgets homepage at:
+
+                  http://www.wxwidgets.org/
   
 Information on how to install can be found in the file 
 INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
 many systems:
 
-./configure --with-gtk
-make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+    mkdir build_gtk
+    cd build_gtk
+    ../configure
+    make
+    su <type root password>
+    make install
+    ldconfig
+
+In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1
+configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all
+strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure
+with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
+
+Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
+a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
+different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in
+parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to
+do "make clean" before changing the configuration!
 
 When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and 
 follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
@@ -37,19 +60,12 @@ A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR
 VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR 
 WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
 
-The library produced by the install process will be called 
-libwx_gtk.a (static) and libwx_gtk-2.2.so.0.0.0 (shared) so 
-that once a binary incompatible version of wxWindows/Gtk comes 
-out we'll augment the library version number to avoid linking 
-problems.
-
 Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, 
-bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users list. Information 
-on how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
-
-Do NOT send any comments directly to me.
+bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can
+be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at 
+http://lists.wxwidgets.org.
 
-wxWindows/Gtk doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It 
+wxWidgets doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It 
 might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't 
 claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose.
 
@@ -57,5 +73,3 @@ claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose.
 
     Robert Roebling
 
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