GNOME or GTK?

[Mark Street]

I think this comes down to your preference, from a user standpoint you have 
to know a little bit about what gnome is all about before it makes sense, 
www.gnome.org .  As Eric said, if you run gnome then you should install the 
gnome versions as they tie in with Gnome's CORBA - Common Object Request 
Broker Architecture and ORbit model.  It really comes down to the 
programmer as these are basically toolkits used to create graphical user 
interfaces, the toolkits tie into a wide variety of programming 
languages....so you can program gnome apps in many languages.  The two most 
popular widget toolkits being gtk+ and Qt, older widget toolkits being 
Motif, lesstif, etc.

** http://developer.gnome.org/arch/

http://erik.bagfors.nu/gnome/languages.html

http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm

I am still trying to sort it out also as I am not a programmer by 
trade..... ; )

Mark

At 01:09 AM 1/30/2002 -0800, Andrew wrote:

>While looking for new apps to install, I've noticed that some
>graphical apps are available in a GNOME version and a GTK
>version. Obviously, both will work in a GNOME environment, but
>what's the difference between the two? What are the pros and cons
>of choosing one over the other?