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@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-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/])
.
-----
+;: [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 | 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.)
-[http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/file_selection
.png
]
-
-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]...
