I cannot agree more. GTK+ still exists because that's one of the few pure-C toolkits left around. Qt, wx* and Fltk (which are arguably the other most popular w

I cannot agree more. GTK+ still exists because that's one of the few pure-C toolkits left around. Qt, wx* and Fltk (which are arguably the other most popular widgets in order of popularity) are all C++. Not to mention that wxWindows on linux actually uses GTK+ for rendering, and it uses a terrible event table mechanism.