Depends on deprecated GTK 2

[eribertomota]

Hi @lmanul,

This is a summary form a bug sent to Debian[1].

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/967399

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GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see https://bugs.debian.org/947713). It no longer receives any significant mainstream maintenance, and in particular does not get feature development for new features like UI scaling on high-pixel-density displays (HiDPI)
and native Wayland support. GTK 3 is in maintenance mode and GTK 4 is approaching release, so it seems like a good time to be thinking about minimizing the amount of GTK 2 in the archive.

A porting guide is provided in the GTK 3 documentation: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/migrating-2to3.html

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Please, consider to upgrade to a new GTK version.

Regards,

Eriberto

[lmanul]

Isn't that the case for all of GIMP? If I understand correctly, GIMP 3.0 will depend on GTK 3, but the currently stable/supported version is still GIMP 2.10. I don't believe plugins can go any faster than GIMP itself?

[eribertomota]

Note that this bug was sent to Debian from Simon McVittie, the maintainer of GTK-3/4 on Debian[1][2]. Thus, this is not my opinion, but the official position of the largest Linux distribution in the world.

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gtk%2B3.0
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gtk4

Regards,

Eriberto

[lmanul]

Okay, maybe my assumptions were wrong then :-) Thanks for the bug report!

[eribertomota]

Thanks for your time.