PDA

View Full Version : What the + in gtk+ stands for?



praveesh
June 7th, 2009, 10:05 AM
What the + in gtk+ stands for ?

itreius
June 7th, 2009, 10:14 AM
Plus



































:p

sonicb00m
June 7th, 2009, 10:43 AM
Plus


:D hahaha

kushal.7
June 7th, 2009, 11:01 AM
Plus

:p

:o

lol

:)

3rdalbum
June 7th, 2009, 11:50 AM
It reminds me of the ads for digital radio here in Australia: It's GTK as you know it, plus!

SunnyRabbiera
June 7th, 2009, 12:16 PM
GTK+ usually indicates the GTK 2 series, I dont remember it being used back in the GTK 1 era (Even though I didnt use Linux at the time of the GTK 1 era, I did use software made with it such as Gimp and Pidgin at that time GAIM)

BadBoy4Live
June 7th, 2009, 12:17 PM
Well i found this article about GTK+ on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B

Apperently it stands for Gimp Toolkit

gnomeuser
June 7th, 2009, 12:28 PM
Well i found this article about GTK+ on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B

Apperently it stands for Gimp Toolkit

That does however not explain the plus part. I suspect it once had a meaning which is now lost, like most people no longer remember that GNOME originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment.

It's GTK+, it just is.

dcraven
June 7th, 2009, 12:46 PM
I could be wrong here, but for some reason I have in my head that the GTK part stands for the widget toolkit itself. The '+' indicates the inclusion of all supporting but not necessarily required packages that make up GTK+ like the gconf and bonobo etc.

Maybe I read that at some point.

Cheers,
~djc

saulgoode
June 7th, 2009, 12:53 PM
I could be wrong here, but for some reason I have in my head that the GTK part stands for the widget toolkit itself. The '+' indicates the inclusion of all supporting but not necessarily required packages that make up GTK+ like the gconf and bonobo etc.

I believe you have the right idea, but the specifics are wrong. It is my understanding that the '+' indicates internationalization support (+libiconv).

MasterNetra
June 7th, 2009, 01:05 PM
holy crap so the makers of gimp are also largely to think for the GUI in gnome?

zmjjmz
June 7th, 2009, 01:21 PM
It's a cation. That is all.

koleoptero
June 7th, 2009, 01:34 PM
Well i found this article about GTK+ on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B

Apperently it stands for Gimp Toolkit

:o :o And I thought it was Gnome ToolKit. :o

It's amazing what one can learn while drinking his morning coffee..

yoda2031
June 7th, 2009, 04:43 PM
Well i found this article about GTK+ on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B

Apperently it stands for Gimp Toolkit

Not sure I'd trust Wiki to be honest. I'd never belong to a group that'd accept the likes of me, and I'd never trust an encyclopaedia that'd trust the likes of me to be factually accurate and unbiased. ;)

That said, wiki got it right on this one:
http://www.gtk.org/overview.html


GTK+ was initially developed for and used by the GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is called the "The GIMP ToolKit" so that the origins of the project are remembered. Today it is more commonly known as GTK+ for short and is used by a large number of applications including the GNU project's GNOME desktop.