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I guess I was imagining a scenario where Gnome 55 on Gtk 7 completely breaks compatibility with older Gtk apps and all the distros stopped providing Gtk 2/3 in

I guess I was imagining a scenario where Gnome 55 on Gtk 7 completely breaks compatibility with older Gtk apps and all the distros stopped providing Gtk 2/3 in their repositories and there were conflicts/headaches trying to get it all working. As long as Gtk continues to have backwards compat, old/unmaintained apps should never just 'stop working'.

int_19h 4y ago
But your Gtk2 apps will not work on later versions of Gtk, and most distros are on the track to remove Gtk2 from the repos. So this isn't a hypothetical. And it will be the same once Gtk3 is phased out: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html