Posts Tagged with 'gtk'

Two Linux desktops step into the ring. But in the end, there can be only one...

While developing the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) a few years back, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis decided that it might be fun to write a user interface toolkit to go along with it. And so they created GTK+ (the GIMP Toolkit) -- a library of "widgets" that makes it easier for developers to build GUI-based application. A widget is one of the various components of a graphical application; a toolbar, for example. The widgets provide programmers with pre-built dialog boxes, windows, menu bars and other GUI components. Having a pre-built foundation for these user interface components greatly speeds development of GUI applications and also enables applications built with those widgets to share a common "look and feel".