Hundreds of niche applications (e.g., early versions of Glade interface designer, Gnumeric 1.4.x, and Inkscape 0.41) were built against GTK 2.4.x APIs. Recompiling them is often impossible due to missing dependencies, so users rely on pre-packaged runtimes.
| Component | Version (typical) | Role | |-----------|------------------|------| | | 2.4.7 | Core data structures (lists, trees, hashes), main loop, threading | | Pango | 1.6.0 | Text layout and international rendering | | ATK | 1.8.0 | Accessibility interface | | GdkPixbuf | 2.4.1 | Image loading (PNG, JPEG, TIFF) | | GTK+ | 2.4.14 | Main widget library | gtk runtime environment version 2.4.14
By version , the toolkit had matured significantly. This version was part of the stable 2.4.x branch, primarily focused on bug fixes and incremental improvements rather than new features. Key highlights of the 2.4 series included: Hundreds of niche applications (e
Released as part of the GTK+ 2.4 series, version 2.4.14 brought several enhancements and bug fixes over its predecessors. Some of the notable features and improvements include: This version was part of the stable 2
pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
On Windows, the runtime was distributed as a self-contained installer (e.g., gtk-runtime-2.4.14.exe ) that placed DLLs into C:\Program Files\GTK\ and added the bin directory to PATH . This allowed GIMP, Pidgin, and other cross-platform apps to run without compiling from source.
