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What are the Gnome Chemistry Utils
The Gnome Chemistry Utils provide some utilities and a library containing Gtk widgets and some C++ classes related to chemistry. They are used in GChemPaint which will be included in future versions.
To compile and use the Gnome Chemistry Utils, you need libglade-2, goffice, GtkGLExt, OpenBabel, BODR, and their own dependencies. Everything except OpenBabel is available from the Gnome repository or one of its mirrors.
GChemistry Utils are distributed under the GPL license.
Last stable version is 0.8.7.
Last development version is 0.9.4.
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The window for iron.

The variation of Pauling's electronegativity.

Existing widgets are:




SVN tree is available at savannah.nongnu.org
The whole tree can be downloaded with the following commands:
svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/gchemutils/trunk/gchemutils gchemutils
The 0.8 branch can be downloaded with:
svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/gchemutils/branches/gchemutils-0-8/gchemutils gchemutils
There is a huge list of things to do. See the TODO file provided with the sources for details. Other than that, some new programs might fit in the Gnome Chemistry Utils:
If you need help, read the various programs documentations. If you do not find the answer to your question, you can use the mailing list (to which you need to subscribe because of anti-spam settings), or join us on irc (irc.gimp.net, channel #gchemutils).
Any participation is welcome. You do not need to ba a skilled programmer to help. There are many available tasks, some of which being:
If you are interested, please contact us, either by mail or on irc.
The Gnome Chemistry Utils are referenced on the following sites:
| the Gnome project | ![]() |
| Linux4Chemistry |
Last updated July 5, 2008 by J. Bréfort