White Paper: GNOME Technologies

Introduction

GNOME provides the user with a rich, mature desktop environment in which they can use their applications. Behind the graphical front end of this environment is a robust ''structure'' that allows developers to create applications in less time while still using tools that allow their applications to remain on the forefront of computer technology.

This paper will briefly detail the base technologies that GNOME provides for application developers. For all of these technologies there are whitepapers and reference documentation available that go into greater detail. You can find this documentation and other resources at http://www.gnome.org.

The technologies detailed in this paper are: GTK+, the relationship between GNOME and window managers, CORBA and ORBit, and the GNOME Imaging Architecture.