On Monday 13 January 2014 15:22:45 you wrote:
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> Whether gtk2 or gtk3 is preferred, I don't know of any distro
> maintainers dropping gtk2 support any time soon. Perhaps the
> question is moot for the next few years?
>
> Darrell

DebianWheezy XFCE4 depends on gtk2, there  are other examples, gtk2 will 
be around for awhile.

Lots of apps I may want to use have gtk3 depends. I typically do not pay 
attention to versions of libraries installed, have lots , I draw the 
line at Gnome dependancies though.


-- 
Peace,

Greg