Re: GTK+ history

[Derek Simkowiak <dereks kd-dev com>]

-> started, and what capabilities it had in the beginning. From my impression 
-> though, it was a standard like POSIX used to implement GUIs, but anything 
-> along these lines, that you could help me with would be greatly appreciated. 

	Hehehe... GTK+: The POSIX of GUIs.  I like that.

	No, Gtk+ is nothing like POSIX.  It is simply a GUI toolkit, just
like Tk (of Tcl/Tk fame), Motif, or Qt (of KDE fame).  It is used to make
writing X-Window programs easier.

	It was originally created for the Gimp, a Photoshop-like program
for Unix (www.gimp.org).  But it was so cool that people started using it
for other things.  Since then, it has been ported to other, non-Unix
operating systems and is now being used in projects like Netscape 6 and
Gnome (www.gnome.org).

	This is actually a good question... 10 years from now, when
everyone is running Gnome on top of Linux, this sort of stuff will be good
history :).  It should be archived somewhere...(?)

--Derek