Anyone here still uses GTK2 programs?

Anyone here still uses GTK2 programs?
I do. I use LXDE and xarchiver. I always choose GTK2 programs whenever possible.
Sadly, I cannot escape GTK3. Most of my programs use GTK3.

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There is no discernible difference to you between GTK2 and GTK3 programs. If someone showed you the same program made in GTK2 and GTK3, you wouldn't be able to tell which is which.
Fucking poser and leech.
>my programs
You can't even program and you absolutely had no contribute to any of the programs that you use.

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Yep. I even joined an initiative to revive gtk2. Theming on gtk3 is horrible and gtk4 cucked it completely with libadwaita, plus I miss the old engines like murrine which were skeumorphic instead of flat meme.

>There is no discernible difference to you between GTK2 and GTK3 programs.
GTK3 software uses more resources than GTK2 software.

yea, i use gtk2 versions where possible
to get away from gtk3 i've starting getting qt programs instead, they can use gtk2 themes as well

while it's true there's no reason why a gtk3 program can't look and feel like a gtk2 one, they often don't, and there's fuck all themes for gtk3, i can tell what's gtk3 immediately because i can't use a theme i like on it, they don't exist

Wow this is ugly as shit. Take a shower sometimes.

This is incorrect. The button and widget layouts are altered, and GTK 3 programs have a """feature""" called CSD that chucks your window manager. To disable it, you need to install a system wide library that hijacks GTK3 programs to hack it out.

Or you just give CSD programs an extra titlebar in your WM and just treat the CSD retardation as a toolbar.

gtk3-classic, chuds. Have you not heard of it?

It's very easy to tell apart GTK2 programs from GTK3 programs. Hopefully picrel will explain in better detail than I can in words.

fucking gtk3 file picker didn't select the file

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how come qt5 is able to use any gtk2 theme i set just fine, but gtk3 can't?

qt isn't using the gtk2 theme, it's using gtk2 itself, drawing gtk2 widgets instead of qt5 ones.

huh that's pretty cool

You got thumbnails over there?
>it's using gtk2 itself, drawing gtk2 widgets instead of qt5 ones.
neat

I wish running abandonware brought me this much joy. I'm jealous and happy for you.

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I haven't, I'll have to look into it. Thanks for letting me know. GTK 3 with patches to make it behave more like GTK 2 sounds nice.

But, it doesn't defeat my original point that GTK 3 is different from GTK 2, it has different features and different methods for employing older features, and functionality that alters it from GTK 2. That's all I'm arguing, and the fact that an optional patch exists to make it more like the old one is proof enough that the new one is significantly different from the old one. Not worse, mind you, just different. Whether GTK 3 is better or worse depends entirely on user preference and requirements.

You are retarded.
> GTK 3 programs have a """feature""" called CSD that chucks your window manager.
No one is forcing you to use the GTK3 headerbar, retard, when you write your GTK3 program. Not that you write programs though.

Throw me some numbers, retard. Also, make it significant numbers and not 0,000005% more CPU time averages.

No, since GTK2 only works on the X11 display server protocol. X11 is old, insecure, and not made for today's use cases. It should be avoided at all costs.

Perhaps use a theme for the version of GTK you're using, retard.

I don't know much about Qt5 to dispute you, but that sounds retardedly wrong.

qt isn't developed by foot trannies

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It's literally what it does. All the primitives are translated to gtk widgets.

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