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The Gimp Toolkit (almost always called GTK), grew out of the graphics program TheGimp, to become a complete widget toolkit, eventually becoming the basis for projects such as [GNOME] and [XFCE]. It was the toolkit of choice for a [GUI] programmer because Trolltech's [Qt] wasn't FreeSoftware, and the GTK was released under the [LGPL]. It is written in C, although next came a project called gtkmm (for gtk--) that lets you use C++, and there are now bindings available in many other languages. You'll recognise it. Look at [some screenshots|http://www.gtk.org/screenshots/]. Anything serious on Linux ([Mozilla], OpenOffice and XimianEvolution to name some obvious examples) tends to use GTK. The new 2.x series is fully internationalized using [Pango] and supports accessibility through the [ATK] libraries. It has also been [ported to Windows|http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/]: see some [screenshots|http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/screenshots/]. GTK's website it at http://www.gtk.org/. ---- 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: [http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/file_selection.png] Reminds you of [Borland]'s !TurboVision IDE for [DOS] doesn't it? :)
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