GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.
GTK used to stand for “GIMP toolkit” but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn’t upgraded to either.
I thought they have renamed it one day from GTK+ Gimp Tool Kit to Gnome Tool Kit, but I do not find this anymore.
Imho Gnome Toolkit would be at least much more appropriate…
What even is GTK2 and GTK3?
GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.
GTK used to stand for “GIMP toolkit” but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn’t upgraded to either.
13 years, damn…
Gtk 2 is old, Gtk 3 current and Gtk 4 is new.
Different versions of the Gnome Took Kit: https://www.gtk.org/
Ahem the GIMP Toolkit.
I thought they have renamed it one day from GTK+ Gimp Tool Kit to Gnome Tool Kit, but I do not find this anymore. Imho Gnome Toolkit would be at least much more appropriate…
They renamed it to GTK, dropping the initialism. It was always intended as a generic toolkit. At least until v4.