GTK+ No More - It's Just GTK As Developers Prepare For This Year's GTK 4.0

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Phoronix: GTK+ No More - It's Just GTK As Developers Prepare For This Year's GTK 4.0

Beyond the FOSDEM conference itself this past week in Brussels, GNOME developers also used the occasion once again for hosting a developer "hackfest" as they prepare for the home stretch in GTK 4.0 development...

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[Compartmentalisation]

Everyone called it GTK for years and now it's finally official. What a time to be alive!

[Britoid]

Kinda surprised this wasn't already the case.

[Calinou]

Everyone called it GTK for years and now it's finally official. What a time to be alive!

As someone who likes to refer to products by their official name (which I think looks more professional), I called it GTK+

I still welcome this change as it makes it easier to get right (and pronounce, if you have to do it often).

[dh04000]

Congrats Gnome. Its took multiple committee's, tens of forums, hundreds of participant's, and thousands of comments, but you did it. You changed the GTK+ to GTK. Seriously, give yourself a clap on the back, you deserve it.

[LightBit]

They would probably rename it to GTK--, if it wasn't already taken.

[bregma]

I'd give this a +1, but now it's just going to be a 1.

[awesz]

GNOME® ToolKit or GTK-

[Trevelyan]

Erm, It’s the GIMP Tool Kit, not Gnome.

[sarmad]

That's the right decision indeed. A couple of weeks ago I decided to learn a bit about GTK and play around with it and surely the first obstacle I faced was this naming confusion. There is no GTK+ libraries in the system or the repos, and there is no GTK documentation. The docs are all for GTK+ while the binaries had no + in them.