RE: GTK+ history

["Arjan J. Molenaar" <A J Molenaar xirion nl>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Simkowiak [mailto:dereks@kd-dev.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 23 mei 2000 0:58
> To: Andrew Robbins
> Cc: gtk-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: GTK+ history
> 
> 
> -> 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
> 
> 
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