On Monday 13 January 2014 15:22:45 you wrote: snip > 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