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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Thursday, November 6, 2003 4:57:02 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 12:31:44 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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-A widget toolkit for X used by [GNOME ] and TheGimp
+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/])
  
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+;: [http://www.gtk.org/images/gtk -logo -rgb.gif]  
  
-There 's now also a version that uses [Curses ] instead of X in development, allowing [GUI ] applications to run on the console . It 's called [Cursed GTK|http://zemljanka .sourceforge .net/cursed/ ] and looks like this:  
+It 's the ToolKit of choice for most any serious application on Linux, such as [Mozilla], OpenOffice, and XimianEvolution to name but a few obvious examples. 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__ (for __gtk--__) . There 's also __PyGTK__ for [Python] and __Gtk2-Perl__ for [Perl] . The 2 .x series of [GTK] is fully internationalized using [Pango ] and supports accessibility through the [ATK] libraries.  
  
-[http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/file_selection .png ]  
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-Reminds you of [Borland]'s !TurboVision IDE for [DOS] doesn't it? :)  
+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]...