12.2. Ruby/GTK2
The GTK+ library is a by-product of the GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program); the name actually means the GIMP Toolkit. Like UNIX and LSD, GTK+ comes to us from the University of California at Berkeley.
For those familiar with X/Motif, GTK+ has a similar look and feel but is more lightweight. GTK+ originates in the UNIX world and forms the underlying basis for GNOME (increasingly familiar to Linux users), but it is relatively cross-platform. Since GTK+ 2.0, it supports not only UNIX-like systems but also the MS Windows family and Mac OS X with the X Window System. There is an ongoing port to the Mac OS X natively, though at the time of this writing it is not stable.
Ruby/GTK2 is a port of GTK+ 2.0. Don’t confuse it with Ruby/GTK ...
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