GTK was developed solely for GIMP, initially. Towards the end of the 0.99 development cycle in 1998, GTK was split from being bundled with GIMP to being a separately available library. See ancient history for some interesting tidbits from the GIMP perspective.

Gtk# is becoming very usable and you can create applications and applets like those you see in a GNOME desktop environment. It's easy to install so it's worth a try.

The "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (originally the General Image Manipulation Program) sired by Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis. In their own words, "GIMP is our answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced) image manipulation software for Linux and UNIX in general." It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor.

See the Gtk# page for more information about Gtk# or jump on over to the Gtk# Beginners Guide to get started.

If you are getting errors like this: generated/PangoHelper.cs(17,55): error CS0039: Cannot convert type 'GLib.Object' to 'Pango.Context' via a built-in conversion generated/PangoHelper.cs(52,55): error CS0039: Cannot convert type 'GLib.Object' to 'Pango.Context' via a built-in conversion generated/PangoRenderer.cs(19,47): error CS1502: The best overloaded method match for 'Pango.Renderer.Renderer(GLib.GType)' has some invalid arguments generated/PangoRenderer.

In addition, when you install Gtk# for .NET if Visual Studio is installed templates for VB.NET and C# are installed, so you can create Gtk# based applications right from Visual Studio.

You can use pkg-config to auto-detect whether the Mozilla development libraries are installed, the pkg-config module name is: gecko-sharp-2.0 To test it, you can write: if pkg-config gecko-sharp-2.0; then echo Gecko# is installed else echo Gecko# is not installed fi To run the applications, you should set the environment variable, run the application like this: export MOZILLA_HOME="'pkg-config --variable=libdir mozilla-gtkmozembed'" mono demo.

Notice that using the Mozilla and Gnome libraries is not currently supported and will limit the portability of your application. Both issues are being addressed and will be fixed in the future. Update: some (but not all) Gnome librarites will work on Windows now. And GeckSharp will be able to run via the GRE and GeckoSharp installer for Windows. An experimental Mono and Gtk# installer for Windows (http://forge.novell.

Gtk# is a set of bindings for the Gtk+ toolkit for C# (and other CIL-enabled languages), it integrates natively with the Gnome desktop. System.Windows.Forms is an API defined by Microsoft to build GUI applications.

Not really. It doesn't use the GNOME application framework. The only thing it has in common is GTK+. GIMP can optionally use gnome-vfs, allowing you to load and edit images from remote servers.

Yes. You can run xscanimage, the front end to SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy), either as a GIMP extension or in stand-alone mode. This supports Mustek and HP flatbed scanners, as well as the Connectix color QuickCam camera.