Clutter is an open source (LGPL 2.1) software library for creating fast, compelling, portable, and dynamic graphical user interfaces. It is a core part of Gnome3, it is used by the GnomeShell, and is supported by the open source community.

Clutter uses OpenGL for rendering (and optionally OpenGL|ES for use on mobile and embedded platforms), but wraps an easy to use, efficient, flexible API around GL's complexity.

Clutter enforces no particular user interface style, but provides a rich, generic foundation for higher-level toolkits tailored to specific needs.

The homepage of the project is available at: http://www.clutter-project.org

Documentation

The Clutter API reference is available on the GNOME developers website.

Documentation is also available on the wiki:

• FAQ

• Profiling Clutter apps

Bugs

Bugs should be reported to the Clutter product on the Gnome Bugzilla.

Contact

• IRC: #clutter on irc.gnome.org

• Mailing list: clutter-list (AT) gnome.org

• Blog: blogs.gnome.org/clutter

• Microblogging:

  • Clutter on Twitter

Building

Instructions for building Clutter on different platforms is available here.

Roadmap

• Current road map - the road map for the current development cycle.

• Clutter Apocalypses - design documents for the 1.x → 2.x transition.

• Strawman proposals - design documents for proposing new features, API, or behaviour.

Integration in GNOME

Clutter can be embedded into every GNOME application by using the clutter-gtk library. The clutter-gtk library provides a GtkClutterEmbed GTK+ widget which can be used to display a ClutterStage.

Clutter also has a clutter-gst integration library, providing a GStreamer sink that can display the result of a GStreamer video pipeline directly inside a ClutterTexture.

Language Bindings

• perl-Clutter
• pyclutter
• Cluttermm