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+   Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
+   -----------------------------
 
-  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk,
-  
-you have downloaded version 1.96 of the GTK+ port of C++ library
-wxWindows. Information on how to install can be found in the
-file install.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
-all systems
+You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
 
-configure --without-threads
-make
-su (PASSWORD)
-make install
+It is required to use at least GTK+ 2.4 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 2.4 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.
 
-wxWindows/Gtk is still in development and you can have a look
-at the todo.txt to see what's missing before an official beta
-and - more important - before we can aim at binary compatibility.
+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 information is available from my homepage at
+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://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
+                  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:
+
+    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,
+please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING 
+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...
+
 Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, 
-bug reports or comments to either the wxGTK mailing list or to
-the wxWindows developers list. Information on how to subscribe
-is available from my homepage.
+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 comes with no guarantee whatsoever. It might crash
-your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't claim to be
-suitable for any special purpose.
+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.
 
   Regards,
 
     Robert Roebling
 
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