pva@gentoo.org Peter Volkov Gideon is a modern GUI builder for GTK+ toolkit. It is an advanced IDE-embeddable RAD tool designed to fulfil l the needs of desktop programmers who want to create multi-platform GTK+ based applications with minimal GUI coding. Gideon is full-featured yet elegant: its innovative Property Explorer solves many GUI constructing t asks in a versatile manner without additional popup dialogs. The project is targeted to develop a tool that i s coherent and highly productive for experienced GTK+ users as well as simple and accessible for newcomers.