Lazarus 0.9.28 release notes

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LCL Interfaces major changes

• Gtk2 is now default widgetset on linux

LCL major changes

• TPen: cosmetic/geometric, Join Style, End Cap Style
• Most of component properties now have default values => smaller .lfm files
• TMonitor class: multi-monitor support
• Refactoring of LCL-Interface interface interoperability => size of empty form application was reduced by 17-18% (qt, win32). Gtk applications size was not changed.
• TreeView component got editing support and misc visual enhancements

Widgetsets

• Windows CE: Implemented TCalendar.

LCL minor changes

• TColorBox, TColorListBox has been rewritten. Now they are more delphi compatible.
• TColorDialog.CustomColors has been added.

IDE changes

• Application icon has been added to the Project Options.
• Environment, Editor and CodeTools options has been merged into one dialog. A new api is introduced to add custom ide settings into ide options dialog.
• Application icon, Version information and XP manifest are merged into one .rc file which has the same name as project main file (.lpi)
• .lrs files can now be saved/auto created in the project output directory (disable in Project / Project Options / Miscellaneous / save .lrs file in the output directory). This way you no longer need to store the .lrs files in the svn/cvs repository.
• The deprecated jitform were removed. They used a dirty trick to create methods at design time. This trick is no longer needed.