> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Simkowiak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: dinsdag 23 mei 2000 0:58
> To: Andrew Robbins
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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