GTK is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces .
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11 Facts About GTK
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GTK library contains a set of graphical control elements ; version 3.
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GTK is an object-oriented widget toolkit written in the programming language C; it uses GObject, that is the GLib object system, for the object orientation.
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GTK can be configured to change the look of the widgets drawn; this is done using different display engines.
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GTK is mainly written in C Many language bindings are available.
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Since 14 Aug 2017, the master branch of GTK has been built with Meson, and the Autotools build system files have been dropped.
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GTK can be run on Microsoft Windows, where it is used by some popular cross-platform applications like Pidgin and GIMP.
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GTK was originally designed and used in the GNU Image Manipulation Program 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.
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Finally GTK was re-written to be object-oriented and was renamed GTK+.
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GTK was adopted for maintenance by the GNOME Foundation, which uses it in the GNOME desktop environment.
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