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Since nautilus is written in C, how is the GUI created?

Is there a specific C framework that allows for GUI creation or is it done some other way?

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    Nautilus uses gtk toolkit. gtk.org
    – Khurshid Alam
    Oct 30, 2016 at 2:44
  • Thanks for the answer, do you know which version of GTK by any chance?
    – Rtsne42
    Oct 30, 2016 at 2:48
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    GTK 3.18 is used on 16.04.
    – Jonas Czech
    Oct 30, 2016 at 6:02

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Nautilus is written in C mostly, as evident from the project's github page:

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According to Wikipedia it uses GTK3 as of version 2.32.

If you want to create GUI with C, there's not much choice - GTK is the best option ( although I'll hint at something known as Borland's Turbo C which is like straight from the 1980s). I'd suggest you move up to C++. With C++ there's GTK and Qt options.

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