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> A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing K

> A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) that's between the library layer and the display server. The GDK is part of the toolkit.

homarp 6y ago
GTK was originally designed and used in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) as a replacement of the Motif toolkit; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK
- homarp 6y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/19990417052141/http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-gimp.html https://web.archive.org/web/19990417052141/http://www.linuxw... "GTk (GIMP Toolkit), the windowing toolkit that now lies at the core of the Gnome desktop, was originally written as part of GIMP."
nwallin 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK#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 named the GIMP toolkit and had successfully replaced Motif by the 0.60 release of GIMP.[36] Finally GTK was re-written to be object-oriented and was renamed GTK+.[37] 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.
ogre_codes 6y ago
Source is ME. Gnome came a year or more after GTK+ did. The whole reason I got interested in Gnome was because it used GTK which I was doing some small pet projects in at the time. But also, it's not too hard to find outside sources. I don't think it's ever been called the Gnome ToolKit by any official source Gnome/ GTK organization.

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> A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing K

by akandiah 6y ago

homarp 6y ago
GTK was originally designed and used in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) as a replacement of the Motif toolkit; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK
- homarp 6y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/19990417052141/http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-gimp.html https://web.archive.org/web/19990417052141/http://www.linuxw... "GTk (GIMP Toolkit), the windowing toolkit that now lies at the core of the Gnome desktop, was originally written as part of GIMP."
nwallin 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK#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 named the GIMP toolkit and had successfully replaced Motif by the 0.60 release of GIMP.[36] Finally GTK was re-written to be object-oriented and was renamed GTK+.[37] 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.
ogre_codes 6y ago
Source is ME. Gnome came a year or more after GTK+ did. The whole reason I got interested in Gnome was because it used GTK which I was doing some small pet projects in at the time. But also, it's not too hard to find outside sources. I don't think it's ever been called the Gnome ToolKit by any official source Gnome/ GTK organization.