GTK+

Name: GTK+
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off too...

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GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.

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Developed byGNOME Foundation
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
RatingAverage rating of 4.5
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The GTK+ toolset does what a Graphical ToolKit needs to do and does it to the point and well.

Pros:

Common use case keyboard navigation works perfectly.
Common desktop gui software paradigms feel at home here.
Latest releases include great intricate debuggers
Current Stable releases allow for a large variety of CSS for styling.
First-Party documentation is terse and as such, easy to reference.
Based on a hilighy-bindable framework that provides the same GUI capability across every major programming & scripting language (even PHP, go figure)
Cross platform, Yes Window, Mac, and naturally Linux

Cons:

Scenario-specific documentation and help resources are thin, Often Google returns results for the last major version that are at best only semantically compatible with the latest version. I consider this an artifact of a relatively small user base.
GTK themes on OSX/Win only emulate native themes, and as such can be shipped with any theme desirable, Deluge on Windows is a good example of a GTK using an irregular theme.
Native GTK File select/save prompts do not feel native to any OS platform.
Large tables (TreeViews) perform poorly and do not have a native cache-optimization requiring manually created workarounds.

All in all, I'm in love with this stuff. I try really hard to use the latest major release which has not had 3rd party interest matured for it yet, leaving a lot of unknowns. I that is a problem, GTK2's 3rd party interest is absolutely mature and is ripe with one-off resources that can help particular use cases.

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GTK+ is more portable (including embedded systems) and includes wrappers to more languages than Qt.

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