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Newer page: version 12 Last edited on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:17:52 pm by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 10 Last edited on Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:05:05 am by MarkusMaier Revert
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-The [ Gimp ToolKit | http://www.gtk.org/] was written as the foundation to carry TheGimp. At the time, the only alternatives were Motif, which has a very restrictive license, and [Qt], which wasn't completely FreeSoftware either and is specifically targetted at [C++]. These were both deemed unacceptable for the reasons given, so a new ToolKit was created and released under the [LGPL]. It is nowadays known as just [GTK] and has become a familiar sight ([see some screenshots | http://www.gtk.org/screenshots/]).  
+!!! The Gimp ToolKit 
  
 ;: [http://www.gtk.org/images/gtk-logo-rgb.gif] 
  
-Many serious applications on Linux, such as [Gnumeric ], [Evolution ], or AbiWord, to name but a few obvious examples , were developed using GTK and many more have GTK ports available, for example [Mozilla ], [Vim ] or MidnightCommander . Entire [DesktopEnvironment]s like [GNOME] and [XFce ] are built on top of it . While it's written in [C ], it has bindings to many other languages. [C++] was the first to get such a library, called [gtkmm | http://gtkmm .sf .net /] (for __gtk--__ ). There's also [PyGTK | http://www.daa .com.au /~james /software /pygtk /] for [Python] and [Gtk2-Perl | http://gtk2 -perl .sf .net/] for [Perl] . The 2 .x series of [GTK ] is fully internationalized using [Pango ] and supports accessibility through the [ATK] libraries . (See [GTK2 ] for more information on the 2 .x series .)  
+The [Gimp ToolKit | http://www.gtk.org/] was written as the foundation to carry [TheGIMP ]. At the time , the only alternatives were [Motif ], which has a very restrictive license , and [Qt ], which wasn't completely FreeSoftware either and is specifically targetted at [C++ ]. These were both deemed unacceptable for the reasons given, so a new ToolKit was created and released under the [LGPL ]. It is nowadays known as just [GTK ] and has become a familiar sight ( [see some screenshots | http://www .gtk .org/screenshots /]). Even a [Windows port | http://www.gimp .org /~tml /gimp /win32 /] has been written ( [see some screenshots | http://gtk -wimp .sourceforge .net/screenshots /]). Another version called [Cursed GTK | http://zemljanka .sourceforge .net/cursed/] now in development uses [Curses] instead of [X11 ], which allows [GUI ] applications to run on the console. [The screenshots | http://zemljanka .sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/] are rather reminiscent of [Borland ]'s !TurboVision IDE for [DOS]. .. 
  
-Even a [Windows port | http://www .gimp .org/~tml/gimp/win32 /] exists ([see some screenshots | http://gtk-wimp .sourceforge .net /screenshots /]). Another version called [Cursed GTK | http://zemljanka .sourceforge .net/cursed /] now in development uses [Curses ] instead of [X11 ], which allows [GUI ] applications to run on the console . [ The screenshots | http: //zemljanka .sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/ ] are rather reminiscent of [Borland ]'s !TurboVision IDE for [DOS ]... 
+It's the ToolKit of choice for most any serious [GUI] application on [Linux] and other [Unix]oid systems, such as [Gnumeric], [Evolution], or AbiWord. Still other applications developed with wider portability in mind use [GTK] as their default ToolKit on [Linux]; examples are [Vim], [Mozilla], and [OpenOffice.org]. Entire [DesktopEnvironment]s like [GNOME] and [XFce] are built on top of [GTK].  
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+While it's written in [C], it has bindings to many other languages. [C++] was the first to get such a library, called [gtkmm | http://gtkmm .sf .net /] (for __gtk--__). There's also [PyGTK | http://www .daa .com.au /~james/software/pygtk /] for [Python] and [Gtk2-Perl | http://gtk2-perl .sf .net/] for [Perl ].  
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+!!! The Next Generation: [GTK2]  
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+[GTK2] is more than just another iteration of [GTK ]. It is a major redesign that can require considerable modification of existing [GTK ]-based source code in order to build against [GTK2]. There are many good reasons to invest the effort .  
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+* The 2.x series is fully internationalized through full [Unicode] /multi-byte character support .  
+* The new text rendering engine called [Pango ] has no trouble with non-Latin languages and supports [Xft ] and FontConfig integration, providing beautifully AntiAliasedFonts.  
+* The [ATK ] libraries support accessibility .  
+* The list- and treeview widgets have been rewritten from the ground up following a ModelViewController architecture, which can drastically reduce memory footprint and improve performance for large amounts of data . Performance has unfortunately actually suffered due to do design decisions taken in favour of greater flexibility, but optimizations for the common cases are being retrofitted as the code matures