Template talk:GTK

Reasoning
I created this template because I was sick and tired of people removing links to articles that are indeed not developed by the GNOME project form the GNOME. While it may be argued, that software, which is not developed as part of the GNOME project, does not belong into the GNOME, I consider the behavior rude if not stupid.

However, I consider the idea to distinguish between the GTK+ Platform and its divers users a good idea. Now the work implementing this idea has to be done, and the GNOME developers, came up with an interesting concept: they re-written and written from scratch GNOME Core Applications (for the record: I started this article...), and GNOME Games to implement strictly their design rules and user experience and bla.

Now what about the other desktop environments and independent developers using GTK+? This navbar should help to navigate between the software components they all share. In contrast to Qt, the GTK+ platform is quite cluttered. At the beginning I sorted software by the DE it originates from, but this should maybe be changed, once we have some useful categories to sort the software by. A huge help with the applications should be provided by Category:Software that uses GTK+ User:ScotXW t@lk 15:44, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

So GNOME could concentrate more on
 * GNOME Shell & GNOME Core Applications & GNOME Games, etc.

Cinnamon on
 * Cinnamon Shell, Nemo (file manager), etc.

and all adopters of the software platform around GTK+ together could combine their efforts in contributing more to
 * Anjuta, Glade Interface Designer, Meld, etc.