GTK workspace

See the main GTK web site.

Things that can live here:

• Draft documentation to be included later in the GTK docs
• Design documents
• Proposed API discussions

Related Projects

• GLib

• GdkPixbuf

Contributing

Come join us and work with us on one of the world's most popular toolkits! We can not directly offer big money, but you get to work on a stable, proven, extensible toolkit, share experience, code and ideas with hundreds of people minded just like you: loving the free and open atmosphere, and free, open code!

We are always, but currently very keenly looking for new developers with preferably present experience with GTK, or another toolkit, firm knowledge of C and a UNIX environment (development with GTK is possible under Windows and Mac OS X, too!), and first and foremost: fresh ideas.

If you think you can contribute to GTK, or already have contributed to GTK with a third-party library and would like to join main development, you can contact us on the GTK Development Mailing List, or directly contribute code on GitLab.

Don't hesitate - join now: we are happy to hear from you!

Getting in Touch

• IRC: #gtk at irc.gnome.org

• Discourse

• Mailing lists

• Issues on GitLab

Development Resources

• Browse source code

• Git repository: git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk

• Tarballs

• Website

• Development blog (draft for This Week in GTK)

• Areas - The GTK codebase

• Best Practices - Rules for working in the GTK codebase

• Roadmap

• Logo

Other OS support

• Windows

• macOS

API discussion

• Event Controllers

• Render Objects

• GTKCSSStyling

• SessionManagement

• Undo

• GtkPlacesSidebar

• Ideas for GtkTreeView improvements

• Content selection

• Notifications

• XDG specifications

• Cloud providers

• Deprecating menu widgets

Old API Discussions

• GTK 3.0

• Symbolic themable colors

• Low memory pool

• Cairo Integration

• ApplicationClass

• Ruler widget

• Recent Manager and Zeitgeist

Other Discussions

• GtkInspector

• IconBrowser

• GSK

• Accessibility

Documentation

• HowDoI

• GTK brochure

• The GLib/GTK+ Development Platform - A Getting Started Guide

• Course materials at the Hunter college

• Drag and drop tutorial for GTK 2 and 3

• Libglade into GTK (is unfortunately on two different pages):

  • LibgladeInGtk

  • LibgladeWithGobjects

• Ideal developer documentation

• Building cross-platform GTK applications with MinGW and C/C++

• GTK 2.x Theming internals

• Device interaction patterns

Books on GTK

• Andrew Krause wrote another book, dedicated to GTK+ 2 development.

  {en} Foundations of GTK Development

• Matthias Warkus wrote a book covering the GNOME 2 desktop environment.

  {en} The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide {de} GNOME 2.0: Das Entwickler-Handbuch

• Havoc Pennington (a bit outdated)

  {en} GTK+/Gnome Application Development

Old initiatives

• GtkLove - GTK Bug love list (bugs in need of developer attention)

• GtkTasks - Sign up for project tasks

• Meetings - GTK Team meetings space

See also

• RoadMap/GtkPlus - GTK inquiries regarding GNOME Roadmap planning

• Maemo - Pages around maemo.org, covering maemo-glib and maemo-gtk

• GTK Hackfest 2008