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GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5 (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

GTK+4 was released? When??

I've been compiling GTK+3 3.2x, the latest stable version about ten years ago and always wonder will they ever advance the major version. Years of installing XFCE4 and stuff and I always saw them pulling GTK+3 as a dependency. Never seen GTK+ marked 4 though.

To be fair I haven't visited their official website for a while though.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    GTK 4 was released in 2020, they also dropped the plus from the name in 2019. GTK 4 is a big update and would be a pretty massive amount of work to switch to. I don't know when, if ever, XFCE will switch to it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yup, considering they deprecated so many functions and removed them I'd imagine switching would be really hard.

    Even while writing my new projects in gtk4 (tiny projects) I run into problems of many solutions no longer working because the functions are removed without any replacements.

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