After a while Raphael Manfredi took over as the main software architect, and the client has been in active development ever since.
GDK – the GIMP Drawing Kit lies between the X server and the GTK+ library, handling basic rendering such as drawing primitives, raster graphics (bitmaps), cursors, fonts, as well as window events and drag-and-drop functionality
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Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) – widget toolkit written for the Enlightenment window manager
PHP-GTK 1.0 was released in October 2003 alongside several extensions — including a wrapper for libglade, which allowed the cross-platform Glade UI builder to be used in creating PHP-GTK applications.
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Events from the windowing system (in X, read off the X socket) are translated by GDK into GTK+ events and emitted as GLib signals on the application's widget objects.
Another significant Convergence development is DirectFB, a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration and windowing features for Gtk+-based and other graphical Linux applications without the use of an X11 server, and which its developers claim "adds graphical power to embedded systems".