List of GTK applications
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
- 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
- Budgie is a distro-agnostic desktop environment
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-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
- Vino – VNC server
Games
- GNOME Games – collection of games in Vala and C
Abstract strategy games
- GNOME Chess – new 2d graphical front-end written in Vala
- PyChess – Chess 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
Internet software
Web browsers
Email clients
- Balsa – Email client
- Claws Mail
- Evolution (software)
- Geary
- Modest (email client)
- Pantheon Mail
- Sylpheed
Software for inter-person communication
Office software
- AbiWord – word processor
- 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
- 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
- PIDA – IDE
- Xojo – 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
Optical disc ripping software
- Grip – CD ripper and player
- Thoggen – DVD backup utility
Audio
- Software audio players (free and open-source)
- SoundConverter (software)
- GNOME Sound Juicer
Video
Video players
- GNOME Videos – the GNOME default video player
Video editors
- Gnome Subtitles – Video subtitling
- Pitivi – Video editor
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
- Beagle – search tool
- Gramps – Genealogy software
References
- https://www.linux.com/tutorials/3-unique-takes-linux-terminal-your-command/
- https://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/Guake-Review-463465.shtml
- https://lifehacker.com/customizable-terminal-sessions-with-tilda-264327
- https://www.linux.com/tutorials/4-unique-terminals-linux/
- https://www.linux.com/news/three-addictive-pop-console-utilities/
- https://www.linux.com/tutorials/5-coolest-linux-terminal-emulators/
External links
- http://gnomefiles.org/ – GNOME/GTK software repository
- GTK Application Repository at ibiblio