A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp, it is arguably the foundation of much of modern Linux GUI.
This makes me want to take a swing at desktop Linux again.
GTK -> GIMP Toolkit -> GNU Image Manipulation Program Toolkit -> GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Toolkit -> ...
I didn't know that. I'd always assumed the G in GTK stands for GNU. Well, indirectly it does, I guess.
Cool to know. But from other comments in this discussion, I get the impression that right now the limitations of GTK are one of the biggest things holding Gimp back.
Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) that's between the library layer and the display server. The GDK is part of the toolkit.
"GTk (GIMP Toolkit), the windowing toolkit that now lies at the core of the Gnome desktop, was originally written as part of GIMP."
> GTK was originally designed and used in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) as a replacement of the Motif toolkit; at some point Peter Mattis became disenchanted with Motif and began to write his own GUI toolkit named the GIMP toolkit and had successfully replaced Motif by the 0.60 release of GIMP.[36] Finally GTK was re-written to be object-oriented and was renamed GTK+.[37] This was first used in the 0.99 release of GIMP. GTK was subsequently adopted for maintenance by the GNOME Foundation, which uses it in the GNOME desktop environment.
But also, it's not too hard to find outside sources. I don't think it's ever been called the Gnome ToolKit by any official source Gnome/ GTK organization.