GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Inspired by the success of the similar K Desktop Environment (KDE) project, the burgeoning popularity of the GNU/Linux operating system, and and the power of the GTK+ graphical toolkit, Gnome grew quickly --- within a year, hundreds of programmers were involved and many thousands of lines of code had been written. ... Gnome is a part of the GNU Project, whose overall goal is developing a free operating system (named GNU) plus applications to go with it. ...