GTK2-NG: A community effort to revive and modernize GTK2
validatori
22 points
4 comments
April 28, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
ho_schi
Are they just “against” or is there a currently required set of applications which cannot migrate to Gtk3 or Gtk4? Even Gimp is using Gtk3. And already heading to Gtk4. Take that already with a smile ;)
Thev00d00
This is interesting to see and shows the beauty of open source: if you want GTK2 to be alive, you can put in the effort to revive it. This being Devuan it is driven by those pesky Debian devs removing GTK2 > Debian is not the only distro doing this. A few months ago, Arch Linux > removed GTK 2 from its official (non-AUR) repositories [1]. RHEL 10 was > released earlier in 2025 without GTK 2. > > gtk3 was released 15 years ago. Debian has had the stable 3.24 series > for more than 7 years. The announcement[0] has a quite long list of packages still using it. 0. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00090.html