Why do some want to get rid of GTK2 and all applications that depend on it?

Posted Jan 17, 2026 20:38 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Why do some want to get rid of GTK2 and all applications that depend on it? by pizza
Parent article: Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

> But it's not that "touch input" is backwards-incompatible in of itself, but rather that touch-oriented UIs need to be designed differently to be effective.

And that many devices are now "touch only". Personally, I think that's awful, and my windows computers are configured to disable touch if a mouse is present (which it almost always is). I wish I knew how to do it on linux.

But at the end of the day, we now live in a world where "touch only" is the norm :-(

Cheers,
Wol