GTK For Game Programming?

[Roy Wood <roy centricsystems ca>]

I'm undertaking the development of a simple game as a first Linux 
programming project (newbie alert!).

The game is sort of a realtime version of "Risk", though the differences 
in play make that comparison a huge stretch.  About the only similarity 
is that the game environment is a 2-D map of the world, and the goal of 
the game is to conquer the world.  Not a particularly CPU-intensive app 
by any stretch.

I've previously done versions of this for Windoze, DOS, and the MacOS, so 
I'm mostly just developing the native interface and recycling the 
portable backend code.

Anyway, I'm considering using GTK for the user interface, and I was just 
wondering if anyone had any comments on whether this was a good idea or 
not.  Anyone listening have experience doing this sort of thing?

The other option seems to be to go with ClanLib, which doesn't sound too 
bad from what I've read about it so far.

Thanks...


-Roy