Software:List of GTK applications

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This is a list of notable 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.

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.

Shells, user interfaces, application launchers

Education software

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

Utility software

Operating system administration

End-user utilities

  • Archive Manager – archive manager
  • Cheesewebcam 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-panel graphical file manager
  • GNOME Files – File manager, formerly called Nautilus
  • GNOME Terminal – Terminal emulator
  • Gnote – Note-taking software in C++
  • Guake – drop-down terminal emulator[1][2]
  • Gucharmap – Character map
  • Guvcview – webcam application
  • Orca – Scriptable screen-reader
  • Scribes – Text editor
  • Seahorse – PGP and SSH key-manager
  • Sushi – File previewer
  • Terminator - Terminal emulator
  • Tilda – drop-down terminal emulator[3][4][5][6]
  • Tomboy – Note-taking software in C#
  • Vinagre – VNC client
  • VinoVNC server (deprecated)

Games

  • GNOME Games – collection of games in Vala and C, now archived
  • Lutris - video game manager/launcher

Abstract strategy games

Puzzle games

  • GNOME Mines – Minesweeper-clone
  • gbrainy – Brain teaser game

Graphics

Graphics editors

Image viewers

Internet software

Web browsers

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

Email clients

Software for inter-person communication

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

File sharing

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

Office software

Tools for programming and development

Optical disc software

Optical disc authoring software

  • Brasero – optical disc authoring software, graphical front-end to burn CDs/DVDs

Optical disc ripping software

  • Grip – CD ripper and player
  • Thoggen – DVD backup utility

Audio

Video

Video players

Video editors

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

Statistics

  • gretl — an open-source statistical package, mainly for econometrics

Various

See also

References