GTK+
gtk3-widget-factory, is a collection of examples demonstrating many of the GUI widgets in GTK+ version 3 | |
Original author(s) | Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) |
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Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
Initial release | April 14, 1998 |
Stable release | 3.22.4 (November 18, 2016 ) [±] |
Preview release | 3.89.1 (November 21, 2016 ) [±] |
Repository |
git |
Development status | Active |
Written in | C[1] |
Operating system | Linux, Unix-like, OS X, Windows |
Available in | Multilingual |
Type | Widget toolkit |
License | LGPL version 2.1 |
Website |
www |
GTK+ (formerly GIMP Toolkit) is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.[2] It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the Wayland and X11 windowing systems, along with Qt.[3]
Software architecture
The GTK+ library contains a set of graphical control elements (widgets), version 3.13.3 contains 203 active and 37 deprecated widgets. GTK+ is an object-oriented widget toolkit written in the C programming language; it uses GObject, that is the GLib object system, for the object orientation. While GTK+ is primarily targeted at windowing systems based upon X11 and Wayland, it works on other platforms, including Microsoft Windows (interfaced with the Windows API), and Mac OS X (interfaced with Quartz). There is also an HTML5 back-end called Broadway.
GTK+ can be configured to change the look of the widgets drawn; this is done using different display engines. Several display engines exist which try to emulate the look of the native widgets on the platform in use.
Starting with version 2.8, released in 2005, GTK+ began the transition to using Cairo to render the majority of its graphical control elements.[4] Since GTK+ version 3.0, all the rendering is done using Cairo.
GTK+ Scene Graph Kit (GSK)
In 2005 GTK+ 2.8 started utilizing Cairo to render the majority of its graphical control elements.[5] Since GTK+ version 3, all the rendering is done using Cairo.
In June 2006 Clutter, an OpenGL-based 'interactive canvas' library, was released. Clutter has its own scene graph, and GNOME developers preferred to use Clutter's scene graph with GTK+, facilitated by a library called clutter-gtk.[6] Clutter can be embedded into every GNOME application by using the clutter-gtk library. The clutter-gtk library provides a GtkClutterEmbed GTK+ widget which can be used to display a ClutterStage.
Some thought went into how to merge Clutter and GTK+ in a better way than the clutter-gtk library.
In 2011 Firefox introduced "Azure" and Joe Drew and Bas Schouten bothered with some explanations.[7][8][9]
- GTK+ Scene Graph Kit (GSK) is the forthcoming scene graph (canvas) for GTK+ in the process of being written by Emanuele Bassi.[10]
There was a presentation at the 2014 Developer Experience Hackfest regarding a new scene graph for GTK+ aimed at being merged into GTK+ 3.16.[11] Then GSK was planned to be ready and fully integrated into GTK+ version 3.20, to be released in March 2016. This was postponed to 3.22.[12] And then again it was postponed to 3.90, and finaly merged in GTK4.00 [13]
- Graphene is a collection of geometry types — points, sizes, rectangles, vectors, quads, quaternions, matrices. It tries to optimize them so that the naive, four floats for vertex/four vertices for matrix implementation is not the only one available. Graphene's API makes it possible to avoid exposing C arrays of floating point values, or opaque memory regions, enabling the manipulation of vectors and matrices in other languages as well.
Having OpenGL (or OpenGL ES) support in GDK facilitates a slightly better control of the graphics pipeline; OpenGL is well suited for compositing textured data but totally unsuited for drawing.[14]
Before the adoption of GSK, application developers could optionally use Clutter. The way widgets were drawn in GTK+, was, that a draw function drew everything. There was no way to know, what has just been drawn. To know where the mouse pointer was currently hovering over, the current position had to be computed.
With GSK, it should be fairly easy to write complex graphical control elements (widgets) and still track easily the whereabout of the mouse pointer. Getting more conformation with CSS should also arrive.
The latest information about the status of GSK is from GUADEC 2016.[15]
GtkInspector
GtkInspector has been introduced with version 3.14.[16][17] GtkInspector can only be invoked after installing the development package libgtk-3-dev/gtk+-devel.
GUI designers
There are several GUI designers for GTK+. The following projects are active as of July 2011:
- Glade, supports GtkBuilder, which is a GTK+ built-in GUI description format.
- Gazpacho, GUI builder for the GTK+ toolkit written in Python[18]
- Crow Designer, relies on its own GuiXml format and GuiLoader library.[19]
- Stetic, part of MonoDevelop, oriented towards Gtk#.
GtkBuilder
GtkBuilder allows user interfaces to be designed without writing code. The interface is described in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file, which is then loaded at runtime and the objects created automatically. The Glade Interface Designer allows creation of the user interface in a WYSIWYG manner. The description of the user interface is independent from the programming language being used.
Language bindings
A library written in one programming language may be used in another language if bindings are written; GTK+ has a range of bindings for various languages.[20]
Gtk#
Developer(s) | Xamarin |
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Stable release |
2.12.41 [21]
/ September 22, 2016 |
Preview release |
2.99.3 [22]
/ June 6, 2014 |
Repository |
git |
Written in | C#, XML, Perl, C |
Operating system | Windows, OS X, Linux |
Type | Widget toolkit |
License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
Website |
mono-project |
Gtk# is a set of .NET bindings for the GTK+ GUI toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries. The library facilitates building graphical GNOME applications using Mono or any other compliant CLR. Gtk# is an event-driven system like any other modern windowing library where every widget allows you to associate handler methods, which get called when particular events happen.
Applications built using Gtk# will run on many platforms including Linux, Windows and OS X. The Mono packages for Windows include GTK+, Gtk# and a native theme to make applications look like native Windows applications. Starting with Mono 1.9, running Gtk# applications on Mac OS X no longer requires the user to run the X11 server.[23]
Glade can be used with the Glade# bindings to easily design GUI applications. A GUI designer called Stetic is integrated with the MonoDevelop IDE.
In addition to support the standard GTK/GNOME stack of development tools, the gtk-dotnet.dll assembly provides a bridge to consume functionality available on the .NET stack. At this point this includes the functionality to use System.Drawing to draw on a widget.
Development
GTK+ is mainly developed by The GNOME Project, which also develops the GNOME Development Platform and the GNOME Desktop Environment.[24]
GTK+ development is loosely managed. Discussion chiefly occurs on a number of public mailing lists.[25] GNOME developers and users gather at an annual GUADEC meeting to discuss the current state and the future direction of GNOME.[26] GNOME incorporates standards and programs from freedesktop.org to better interoperate with other desktops.
GTK+ is mainly written in C.[27] A number of language bindings are available.
On September 1, 2016 a post on the GTK development blog denoted, among other things, the future numbering scheme of GTK+.[28] GTK+ version 3.22 from autumn 2016 shall be the last 3.x release. After that all resources will flow into the GTK+ 4 development series with the version names 3.90, 3.92, etc. Whether the numerous application that still use GTK+ 2.x, even the Wikipedia has a couple of articles on those, will be ported to 3.22 or not, only the future can show.
Build automation
In former times GTK+ (and GNOME, GLib, etc.) utilized the GNU Build System (called Autotools) as the build automation system of choice.
The Meson build system is being prepared to be used with GTK.[29]
At Saturday 13. August at GUADEC2016 Nirbheek Chauhan hold a talk titled "Making your GNOME app compile 2.4x faster". The video is available on YouTube:
Criticisms
The most common criticism towards GTK+ is a lack of backwards-compatibility in major updates, most notably in the API[30] and theming.[31]
The compatibility breaks between minor releases during the GTK+ 3.x development cycle has been explained by Benjamin Otte as due to strong pressures to innovate, such as providing the features modern users expect and supporting the increasingly influential Wayland (display server protocol). With the release of GTK+ 4, the pressure from the need to innovate will have been released and the balance between stability and innovation will tip towards stability.[32] Similarly, recent changes to theming are specifically intended to improve and stabilise that part of the API, meaning some investment now should be rewarded later.
- Dirk Hohndel, co-developer of Subsurface and member of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center, criticized the GTK+ developers for being abrasive and ignoring most community requests.[33]
- Hong Jen Yee, developer of LXDE, expressed disdain for version 3 of the GTK+ toolkit's radical API changes and increased memory usage, and ported PCManFM to Qt additionally. PCManFM is being developed with a GTK+ and with a Qt at the same time.[34]
- The Audacious music player plans to move back to GTK+ version 2 starting with version 3.6, with the long-term goal of migrating to Qt.[35] The reasons stated by the developers for this include a transition to client-side window decorations, which they claim cause the application to look "GNOME-y and out of place."[36]
- Wireshark also is transitioning to use Qt due to not having a good experience with its cross-platform support.[37]
Uses
Applications
Some notable applications that use or once used GTK+ as a widget toolkit include:
- GNOME Core Applications – as part of GNOME desktop environment, developed in concert with GTK+ itself.
- AbiWord – Word processor
- Anjuta – Integrated development environment (IDE)
- Ardour – Digital audio workstation
- Chromium – Web browser (Until version 34, replaced by Aura in version 35+)
- Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting) – VoIP and video conferencing application
- GNU Emacs can use GTK when running under X.
- Evolution – Personal information manager
- gconfig – Linux kernel source configuration utility.
- Geany – a lightweight cross-platform IDE and GTK+ text editor based on Scintilla.
- GIMP – Raster graphics editor
- Gnumeric – Spreadsheet application
- Gramps – Genealogy software
- Inkscape – Vector graphics editor for SVG
- LiVES – Video editor
- Midori – Minimalistic web browser using GTKWebKit as rendering engine and GTK+ as widget toolkit
- Pidgin – Instant messenger application
Desktop environments
Several desktop environments utilize GTK+ as the widget toolkit.
- GNOME, based on GTK+, meaning that programs native to GNOME use GTK+
- Unity, the default desktop environment of Ubuntu
- Consort, the GNOME 3.4 Fallback Mode – fork from SolusOS
- Budgie, built from scratch the SolusOS successor, Solus
- Cinnamon, a fork of GNOME 3 and uses GTK+ version 3
- MATE, a fork of GNOME 2, which has been updated to support GTK+ 3
- Xfce, currently based on GTK+ 2 with support for and eventual plans for a migration to GTK+ 3
- LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is based on GTK+ 2
- Pantheon uses GTK+ 3 exclusively, being developed by elementary OS
- Sugar is a desktop environment oriented towards children's education, which uses GTK+, especially PyGTK
- ROX Desktop, a lightweight desktop, with features from the GUI of RISC OS
- GPE, the GPE Palmtop Environment
- Access Linux Platform (successor of the Palm OS PDA platform)
- KDE, though based on Qt, has integration with GTK+-based programs and themes since version 4.2
GTK+ programs can run on top of X11-based desktop environments or window managers even those not made with GTK+, provided the required libraries are installed; this includes Mac OS X if X11.app is installed. GTK+ can also run under Microsoft Windows, where it is used by some popular cross-platform applications like Pidgin and GIMP. wxWidgets, a cross-platform GUI toolkit, uses GTK+ for GNU/Linux operating systems.[38] Other ports include DirectFB (used by the Debian installer, for example) and ncurses.[39]
Window managers
The following window managers use GTK+:
Example
The following code presents a graphical GTK+ hello-world program in the C programming language. This program has a window with the title "Hello, world!" and a label with similar text.
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *label;
gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
/* Create the main, top level window */
window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
/* Give it the title */
gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), "Hello, world!");
/* Center the window */
gtk_window_set_position(GTK_WINDOW(window), GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER);
/* Set the window's default size */
gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(window), 200, 100);
/*
** Map the destroy signal of the window to gtk_main_quit;
** When the window is about to be destroyed, we get a notification and
** stop the main GTK+ loop by returning 0
*/
g_signal_connect(window, "destroy", G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);
/*
** Assign the variable "label" to a new GTK label,
** with the text "Hello, world!"
*/
label = gtk_label_new("Hello, world!");
/* Plot the label onto the main window */
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), label);
/* Make sure that everything, window and label, are visible */
gtk_widget_show_all(window);
/*
** Start the main loop, and do nothing (block) until
** the application is closed
*/
gtk_main();
return 0;
}
Needs installing the libraries first in debian or derivatives:
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
Using pkg-config in a Unix shell, this code can be compiled with the following command (assume above source has file name "helloworld.c"):
$ cc -Wall helloworld.c -o helloworld $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0)
Invoke the program
$ ./helloworld
History
GTK+ was originally designed and used in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) as a replacement of the Motif toolkit; at some point Peter Mattis became disenchanted with Motif and began to write his own GUI toolkit called the GIMP toolkit and had successfully replaced Motif by the 0.60 release of GIMP.[40] Finally GTK was re-written to be object-oriented and was renamed GTK+.[41] This was first used in the 0.99 release of GIMP. GTK+ was subsequently adopted for maintenance by the GNOME Foundation, which uses it in the GNOME desktop environment.
The GTK+ 2.0.0 release series introduced new features which include improved text rendering using Pango, a new theme engine, improved accessibility using the Accessibility Toolkit, transition to Unicode using UTF-8 strings, and a more flexible API. Starting with version 2.8, GTK+ 2 depends on the Cairo graphics library for rendering vector graphics.
GTK+ version 3.0.0 included revised input device handling, support for themes written with CSS-like syntax, and the ability to receive information about other opened GTK+ applications.
Releases
Release series | Initial release | Major enhancements | Latest minor version | ||||||
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style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="1.0" | 1.0 | 1998-04-14 | First stable version | 1.0.6 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="1.2" | 1.2 | 1999-02-27 | New widgets (GtkFontSelector, GtkPacker, GtkItemFactory, GtkCTree, GtkInvisible, GtkCalendar, GtkLayout, GtkPlug, GtkSocket) | 1.2.10 | ||||||
GTK+ 2 | |||||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.0" | 2.0 | 2002-03-11 | GObject, overall support for UTF-8 | 2.0.9 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.2" | 2.2 | 2002-12-22 | Multihead support | 2.2.4 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.4" | 2.4 | 2004-03-16 | New widgets (GtkFileChooser, GtkComboBox, GtkComboBoxEntry, GtkExpander, GtkFontButton, GtkColorButton) | 2.4.14 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.6" | 2.6 | 2004-12-16 | New widgets (GtkIconView, GtkAboutDialog, GtkCellView). The last to support Windows 98/ME. |
2.6.10 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.8" | 2.8 | 2005-08-13 | Majority of the widgets are rendered by Cairo. | 2.8.20 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.10" | 2.10 | 2006-07-03 | New widgets (GtkStatusIcon, GtkAssistant, GtkLinkButton, GtkRecentChooser) and print support (GtkPrintOperation) |
2.10.14 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.12" | 2.12 | 2007-09-14 | GtkBuilder | 2.12.12 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.14" | 2.14 | 2008-09-04 | JPEG 2000 load support | 2.14.7 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.16" | 2.16 | 2009-03-13 | New widget (GtkOrientable), Caps Lock warning in password entry. Improvements on GtkScale, GtkStatusIcon, GtkFileChooser. |
2.16.6 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.18" | 2.18 | 2009-09-23 | New widget (GtkInfoBar). Improvement on file chooser, printing. GDK has been rewritten to use "client-side windows". |
2.18.9 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.20" | 2.20 | 2010-03-23 | New widgets (GtkSpinner, GtkToolPalette, GtkOffscreenWindow). Improvement on file chooser, keyboard handling, GDK. Introspection data is now included in GTK+. |
2.20.1 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="2.22" | 2.22 | 2010-09-23 | GdkPixbuf moved to separate module, most GDK drawing are based on Cairo, many internal data are now private and can be sealed in preparation to GTK+ 3. |
2.22.1 | ||||||
class="templateVersion co" style="background-color: #FEF8C6; " title="Older version, yet still supported" data-sort-value="2.24" | 2.24 | 2011-01-30 | New widget (GtkComboBoxText), the CUPS print backend can send print jobs as PDF, GtkBuilder has gained support for text tags and menu toolbuttons and many introspection annotation fixes were added. |
2.24.31 | ||||||
GTK+ 3 | |||||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.0" | 3.0 | 2011-02-10 | Development and design of the GTK+ 3 release of the toolkit started in February 2009 during the GTK+ Theming Hackfest held in Dublin.[42] The first draft of the development roadmap was released on 9 April 2009.[43] completed mostly Project Ridley, the attempt to consolidate several libraries that were external to GTK+, including libgnome , libgnomeui , libgnomeprint22 , libgnomeprintui22 , libglade , libgnomecanvas , libegg , libeel , gtkglext , and libsexy .[44] all the rendering is done using Cairo; GDK became more X11 agnostic, XInput2, theme API is based upon CSS (worsening the achievable performance for 60 Hz frame rates) |
3.0.12 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.2" | 3.2 | 2011-09-25 | New widgets (GtkLockButton, GtkOverlay), New Font Chooser dialog; new experimental backends (Wayland, HTML5 (called "Broadway")); |
3.2.4 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.4" | 3.4 | 2012-03-26 | Menu support in GtkApplication, a new color chooser, added support for touch devices, added support for smooth scrolling, GtkScrolledWindow will do kinetic scrolling with touch devices, OS X support has been improved. This is the first version of GTK+ 3 that works well on Windows. The Wayland backend has been updated to the current Wayland version Spin buttons have received a new look. Accessibility: the treeview accessible support has been rewritten More complete CSS Theming support |
3.4.4 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.6" | 3.6 | 2012-09-24 | GtkSearchEntry, GtkMenuButton, GtkLevelBar. Vertical spin buttons. CSS animations, blur shadows. Support for cross-fading and transitions in themes. |
3.6.5 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.8" | 3.8 | 2013-05-13 | Wayland 1.0 stable support, support for the broadwayd server, improved theming, better geometry management, touch improvements, support with the window manager for the frame synchronization protocol |
3.8.9 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.10" | 3.10 | 2013-09-23 | New widgets (GtkHeaderBar, GtkPlacesSidebar, GtkStack, GtkStackSwitcher, GtkRevealer, GtkSearchBar, GtkListBox). Support for Wayland 1.2 (maximization, animated cursors, multiple monitors, settings, custom surfaces and frame synchronization) Added: client-side decorations, scaled output support on high-dpi screens, fine-adjustment mode for scrolling. Removed: support for the Motif DND protocol, support for multiple screens per display, gdk_window_get_display, gtk_widget_push_composite_child, Tear-off menu-items, plus a number of GTK+ settings. The modern GTK+ drawing model |
3.10.9 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.12" | 3.12 | 2014-03-25 | GTK+ 3.12 introduced client-side decorations,[45] support for Wayland 1.5; new widgets: (GtkPopover, an alternative to menus and dialogs) | 3.12.2 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.14" | 3.14 | 2014-09-30 | GtkInspector introduced;[46][47] improved support for gestures/multi-touch merged[48][49] Deprecate: GtkMisc, GtkAlignment, GtkArrow, GdkColor, Style regions, support for .icon files, gdk_window_flush, drawing outside of begin/end paint.[50] Most widgets converted to use gestures internally, Wayland supports GNOME Shell classic modus.[51] |
3.14.13 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.16" | 3.16 | 2015-03-22 | GDK supports rendering windows using OpenGL for X11 and Wayland using libepoxy, new widgets (GtkGLArea, GtkStackSidebar, GtkModelButton, GtkPopoverMenu), scrolling overhauled (Scrollbar hidden by default[52]), experimental Mir backend[53] | 3.16.7 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value="3.18" | 3.18 | 2015-11-22 | Add CSS node infrastructure, More filechooser design refresh and Better filechooser search, Dropped Windows XP support, Model support for list and flow box, Kinetic touchpad scrolling, Touchpad gestures (Wayland), gtk-builder-tool utility, Output-only windows | 3.18.5 | ||||||
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer supported" data-sort-value=" 3.20" | 3.20 | 2016-03-21 | Further Integration of CSS nodes,[54] move DND down to GDK, New widgets: GtkShortcutsWindow: shows keyboard shortcuts and gestures of an application | 3.20.3 | ||||||
class="templateVersion c" style="background-color: #D4F4B4; " title="Current stable version" data-sort-value=" 3.22" | 3.22 | 2016-09-20 | last 3.x released[28] GTK+ Wayland tablet support is merged;[55] Support for graphics tablets is considered feature complete[56] GSK (GTK+ Scene Graph Kit not merged![12] GTK+ 3.22 shall be as rock-stable (and hence "boring") as GTK+ 2[32][57][58] |
for 3+ years 3.22.4 | ||||||
GTK+ 4 development series | |||||||||
3.89 | 2016-11-21[59] | 3.89.1 | |||||||
3.90 | 2017 spring | heavy development, API&ABI will not be kept stable.[57][58] remove any API marked as deprecated: before (2016-09-22) vs. after | |||||||
3.92 | 2017 autumn | ||||||||
3.94 | 2018 spring | ||||||||
3.96 | 2018 autumn | ||||||||
4.0 | 2019 spring | remove any API marked as deprecated, i.e. at least everything in the deprecated directory | |||||||
GTK+ 5 development series | GTK+ 4 stable series | ||||||||
4.90 | 4.2 | ||||||||
4.92 | 4.4 | ||||||||
4.94 | 4.6 | ||||||||
Legend: Old version Latest version Latest preview version Future release |
The GNOME team releases new versions on a regular basis.
See also
- GDK – the GIMP Drawing Kit lies between the xlib and the GTK+ library, handling basic rendering such as drawing primitives, raster graphics (bitmaps), cursors, fonts, as well as window events and drag-and-drop functionality
- gtkmm – C++ bindings for GTK+
- Qt - cross platform framework and toolkit
- Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) – widget toolkit written for the Enlightenment window manager
- XForms - a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for the X Window System
- FLTK – A light, cross-platform, non-native widget toolkit
- FOX toolkit – A fast, open source, cross-platform widget toolkit
- IUP – a multi-platform toolkit for building native graphical user interfaces
- Object Windows Library (OWL)
- Ultimate++
- Visual Component Library (VCL)
- Windows Forms – the system for creating graphical user interfaces and elements in the Microsoft family of products
- Windows Presentation Foundation – the system created by Microsoft to replace Windows Forms in GUI development
- List of widget toolkits
References
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- ↑ The GTK+ Team. "GTK+ Features". Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ↑ "Developing X applications".
- ↑ "GTK+ to Use Cairo Vector Engine". Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ↑ "GTK+ to Use Cairo Vector Engine". Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ↑ "clutter-gtk on git.gnome".
- ↑ "Introducing the Azure project". 2011-04-26.
- ↑ "Comparing Performance: Azure vs Cairo". 2011-06-06.
- ↑ "Releasing Azure". 2011-08-16.
- ↑ "The GTK+ Scene Graph Kit". 2014-07-29.
- ↑ "2014 Developer Experience Hackfest: A scene graph for GTK+ 3.16".
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- ↑ "GTK Scene Kit Merged For GTK4 (Phoronix)". 2016-10-18.
- ↑ "Graphene". 2014-05-02.
- ↑ {{url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzJHEpKdefA |title=GTK: are we in the future, yet? |last=Bassi |First=Emmanuele |date=2016-08-16}}
- ↑ "Introducing GtkInspector". 2014-05-15.
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- ↑ "Gazpacho in Debian".
- ↑ "nothing-personal - A development site for Crow Designer, GuiLoader and Rally - Google Project Hosting". Retrieved 2014-02-17.
- ↑ GTK+ Language Bindings
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- ↑ "Adaptation of Meson".
- ↑ How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application? « Morten Welinder
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- ↑ Larabel, Michael (2014-01-12). "The Biggest Problem With GTK & What Qt Does Good". Phoronix. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
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- ↑ LinuxWorld - Where did Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis go? at the Wayback Machine (archived April 17, 1999)
- ↑ "What is the + in GTK+?". 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
- ↑ Alberto Ruiz Hackfest announcement
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- ↑ "GTK 3.12 introduced client-side decorations".
- ↑ Matthias Clasen (2014-05-15). "GtkInspector Author's blog entry". Retrieved 2014-05-17.
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- ↑ Linux-Desktop: Neues Gnome zeigt Nachrichten oben
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- ↑ "GTK+ Wayland tablet support merged".
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- 1 2 "Gtk 4.0 will not be stable until Gtk 4.6". 2016-06-13.
- 1 2 "Gtk 5.0 will not be stable until Gtk 5.6". 2016-06-14.
- ↑ This week in GTK+ – 26, By Emmanuele Bassi, 2016-11-28,GTK+ Development Blog, Matthias Clasen released the first GTK+ 3.89 development snapshot
Bibliography
- Krause, Andrew (April 23, 2007), Foundations of GTK+ Development (1st ed.), Apress, ISBN 978-1-59059-793-4
- Wright, Peter (May 15, 2000), Beginning GTK+ and GNOME (1st ed.), Peer Information, ISBN 978-1-86100-381-2
- Logan, Syd (September 6, 2001), Gtk+ Programming in C (1st ed.), Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-014264-1
External links
The Wikibook X Window Programming has a page on the topic of: GTK+ |
- Official website
- GTK+ 3 Reference Manual
- List of GTK+ applications
- GTK+ PyGObject for Windows on SourceForge.net - Python All-In-One PyGI/PyGObject for Windows Installer (GTK+ 3.18 +)
- GTK+ for Windows (MinGW) on SourceForge.net - (Only up to GTK+ 3.5.4)
- GtkSharp at Mono Project