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>There have always been apps more heavily integrated with GNOME vs GTK apps. From my experience GTK2 apps were not "GNOME" apps, like there were many apps that
by simion314 5y ago
>There have always been apps more heavily integrated with GNOME vs GTK apps.
From my experience GTK2 apps were not "GNOME" apps, like there were many apps that did not installed the entire GNOME dependencies to work, I don't know if this changed lately since I so far only had the need for qt or GTK2 apps.
- shatteredgate 5y agoThat's more because GNOME has completely dropped GTK2 while other projects continue to use it. In the past that wasn't true, GNOME 2 apps depended on a separate library called libgnomeui that had widgets specific to GNOME 2. All the actively-developed GNOME apps ported to GTK3 long ago and so they dropped that dependency which is why you don't see it anymore. The only apps left using GTK2 are non-GNOME apps and so they never depended on that in the first place.