Editing GObject (section)

==History==
Depending only on [[GLib]] and [[libc]], GObject is a cornerstone of [[GNOME]] and is used throughout [[GTK]], [[Pango]], [[Accessibility Toolkit|ATK]], and most higher-level [[GNOME]] libraries like [[GStreamer]] and applications. Prior to GTK+ 2.0, code similar to GObject was part of the GTK codebase. (The name “GObject” was not yet in use &mdash; the common baseclass was called <code>GtkObject</code>.)

At the release of GTK+ 2.0, the object system was extracted into a separate library due to its general utility. In the process, most non-[[GUI]]-specific parts of the <code>GtkObject</code> class were moved up into <code>GObject</code>, the new common baseclass. Having existed as a separate library since March 11, 2002 (the release date of GTK+ 2.0), the GObject library is now used by many non-GUI programs such as [[command-line]] and [[Server (computing)|server]] applications.