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[[File:GNOME 46.png|thumb|A desktop running GNOME 46 in Fedora Workstation 40]] | [[File:GNOME 46.png|thumb|A desktop running GNOME 46 in Fedora Workstation 40]] | ||
[[GNOME]] is a desktop environment designed to be simple, beautiful, and elegant. It is the main desktop environment of [[Fedora]] and [[Ubuntu]] among others, and is a very popular desktop environment within [[Linux]]/BSD. GNOME began development in 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena, with GNOME 1, the first major release of GNOME, being released in 1999. | [[GNOME]] is a desktop environment designed to be simple, beautiful, and elegant. It is the main desktop environment of [[Fedora]] and [[Ubuntu]] among others, and is a very popular desktop environment within [[Linux]]/BSD. GNOME began development in 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena, with GNOME 1, the first major release of GNOME, being released in 1999. | ||
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GTK is one of the most commonly used GUI frameworks, alongside the Qt framework, Cocoa for macOS and Windows Forms for Windows among others. | GTK is one of the most commonly used GUI frameworks, alongside the Qt framework, Cocoa for macOS and Windows Forms for Windows among others. | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:57, 17 June 2024
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| Release Status | Maintained |
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| Last Release | 46.2, 2024-05-30 |
| Language(s) | C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, HTML among others |
| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
| Website | gnome.org |
GNOME is a desktop environment designed to be simple, beautiful, and elegant. It is the main desktop environment of Fedora and Ubuntu among others, and is a very popular desktop environment within Linux/BSD. GNOME began development in 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena, with GNOME 1, the first major release of GNOME, being released in 1999.
GTK
GTK (formerly, GIMP Toolkit) is a widget toolkit that was created for GIMP, but is known as the widget toolkit for GNOME. It uses the GLib data structure and GObject object and type system, to create the GUI behind GNOME and GTK apps such as Epiphany, GIMP and Transmission among others.
GTK is one of the most commonly used GUI frameworks, alongside the Qt framework, Cocoa for macOS and Windows Forms for Windows among others.