List of GTK+ applications

This is a list of applications that use GTK+ and/or Clutter for their GUI widgets. Such applications blend well with desktop environments that are GTK+-based as well, such as GNOME, Cinnamon, LXDE, MATE, Pantheon, Sugar, Xfce or ROX Desktop.

In contrast to Qt, GTK+ relies on additional libraries, such as GLib, Cairo, Pango, or GStreamer. There are no unnecessary abstraction layers and occurring problems are solved at the root, not somewhere above the abstraction layer. In addition, there are language bindings for GTK+.

Official GNOME applications

The GNOME Project, i.e. all the people involved with the development of the GNOME desktop environment, is the biggest contributor to GTK+, and the GNOME Core Applications as well as the GNOME Games employ the newest GUI widgets from the cutting-edge version of GTK+ and demonstrates their capabilities. The following table lists applications supplied as part of a GNOME release:^[1]

"Official" GNOME applications can be found

in the GNOME Wiki at https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/
in the navigation bar {{GNOME}}
somewhere under the Category:GNOME

there should be no good reason to create another list or amalgamation of "GNOME software", this page comprises GTK+ software and arranges it by its scope.

Shells, user interfaces, application launchers

GNOME Shell – the desktop graphical GUI shell introduced with GNOME version 3.0
Cinnamon fork of the GNOME Shell
GNOME Panel – applications launcher
Maynard, a shell for Weston by Collabora originally for the Raspberry Pi
GNOME Panel and forks
gnome-pie,^[2] a circular application launcher

Education software

Tux Typing – typing tutor for children
DrGeo – geometry software
GCompris – educational entertainment for children (legacy version only)

Utility software

Operating system administration

Disk Usage Analyzer – Disk-usage analyzer
GNOME Disks – utility for the hard disk; partition editor, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, formerly known as Gnome Disk Utility or palimpsest
GParted – utility for the hard disk; partition editor
GDM – X display manager
GNOME Keyring Manager – Password manager
GNOME Screensaver – Simple screensaver configuration
Alacarte – Menu editor

End-user utilities

Archive Manager – archive manager
Cheese – webcam application
Conduit Synchronizer – Photo/music/notes/files etc. synchronization
Eye of GNOME – official image-viewer for GNOME
Getting Things GNOME! – Personal tasks management software
gnee – A GNOME GUI and a panel applet that can be used to record and replay test cases.
GNOME Boxes – Application to access remote or virtual systems
GNOME Screenshot – take screenshots of desktop and windows
GNOME Calculator – calculator
GNOME Commander – Two-pane graphical file manager
GNOME Files – File manager, formerly called Nautilus
GNOME Terminal – Terminal emulator
Gnote – Note-taking software in C++
Gucharmap – Character map
Guvcview – webcam application
Orca – Scriptable screen-reader
Scribes – Text editor
Seahorse – PGP and SSH key-manager
Sushi – File previewer
Tomboy – Note-taking software in C#
Vinagre – VNC client
Vino – VNC server

Games

GNOME Games – collection of games in Vala and C

Abstract strategy games

GNOME Chess – new graphical front-end in 2D and 3D
PyChess – Chess implementation
gmchess^[3] – Xiangqi implementation

Puzzle games

GNOME Mines – Minesweeper-clone
gbrainy – Brain teaser game

Graphics

Graphics editors

GIMP – an extensive raster graphics editor
Inkscape – an extensive vector graphics editor
MyPaint – an extensive raster graphics editor, for digital painters
Pinta – a minimalist raster graphics editor

Image viewers

Shotwell – Photo manager
F-Spot – Photo manager
gThumb – Image viewer

Internet software

Web browsers

Web – default GNOME web-browser
Midori – default Xfce web-browser
Uzbl – minimalist web-browser
xombrero – minimalist web-browser

Email clients

Balsa – Email client
Thunderbird – E-mail and news client
Claws Mail –
Evolution (software) –
Modest (email client) –
Sylpheed –

Software for inter-person communication

Empathy – instant-messaging client, VoIP and videoconferencing
Emesene – Instant messenger
Pidgin – Instant messenger
Smuxi – User-friendly IRC Client
XChat – IRC client
Gajim – Instant messenger

File sharing

Deluge — BitTorrent client
Transmission – BitTorrent client
Galago – Desktop presence
Gwget – Download manager framework
Gwibber – Microblogging client
Liferea – RSS feed reader
Pan – Usenet news reader

Office software

AbiWord – word processor
Ease – Presentation application
GnuCash – Personal and small business finance manager
Gnumeric – Spreadsheet
BOND – Database frontend
Evince – pdf viewer
GNOME Dictionary – Dictionary
Evolution – Integrated mail, contacts, and calendar
OCRFeeder – a graphical front-end for the Optical character recognition engines CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract

Tools for programming and development

Anjuta – Integrated development environment
Builder – Integrated development environment currently under heavy development^[4]
Glade Interface Designer – a Graphical user interface builder
Gedit – Text editor
Lazarus - cross-platform visual IDE for RAD using the Free Pascal compiler
Devhelp – API documentation browser
Nemiver – C and C++ debugger
Geany – text editor suitable for programming
Meld ––diff-viewer
Nemiver – debugger
PIDA – IDE
Zenity – execute GTK+ dialog boxes from shell scripts
Bluefish – Web design editor
MonoDevelop – Integrated development environment
ActiveState Komodo – Integrated development environment
Gtranslator – uses gettext
poedit – gettext
Scala (software)

Optical disc software

Optical disc authoring software

Brasero – optical disc authoring software, graphical front-end to burn CDsDVDs
GnomeBaker – CD burner

Optical disc ripping software

Grip – CD ripper and player
Thoggen – DVD backup utility

Audio

Software audio players (free and open-source)

Video

GCfilms – Movies collection manager

Video players

GNOME Videos – the GNOME default video player

Video editors

Gnome Subtitles – Video subtitling
OpenShot – Video editor
Pitivi – Video editor

Tablet applications

Xournal – Pen notetaking application
Jarnal – Pen notetaking application

Science software

Chemistry

Despite the immense popularity of Qt, there continues to be science software using the GUI widgets of version 2 of GTK+ toolkit. Whether this is going to remain that way, or whether the software will be ported to some current version of GTK+ (maybe GTK+ 4) remains to be seen.

Ghemical – computational chemistry software package
Chemtool – for drawing chemical structural formulas

Various

gdevilspie – creates and manages Devil's Pie rules; Devil's Pie finds windows as they are created and perform actions on them, such as resizing, moving to another workspace, or pinning them to all workspaces
Devilspie2 – uses Lua scripts
Beagle – search tool
Gramps – Genealogy software

References

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External links

http://gnomefiles.org/ – GNOME/GTK+ software repository
GTK+ Application Repository at ibiblio

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