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Maybe a hint?

Maybe a hint?

Posted Jan 14, 2026 19:24 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: Maybe a hint? by wtarreau
Parent article: Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

> But if gtk3 was released in 2011 and Gimp itself, where all of this originated from, only adopted it 14 years later,

GIMP switched earlier than that (2.99.2 was released in 2020—see https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/), it's the stabilization of 3.0 that took ages and not specifically the transition to GTK3. And GIMP probably has a more complex UI than most of the affected packages, as well as special input requirements.

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Maybe a hint?

Posted Jan 16, 2026 13:33 UTC (Fri) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link]

Interesting. But this might have a (at least partial) relation with a difficulty to port to the new version, since as you say, it definitely has a more complex UI than many software and could have unveiled a number of less covered areas or regressions as well.


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