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Re:It’s hard work printing nothing by bb88 on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:22PM (#12250972)
It's a deprecation strategy. The warnings are typically for things that will break in the future.

GTK can't control yet alone offer patches for the 1 million + programs that depend upon it as a library.

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Re:It’s hard work printing nothing by rhubarbquid on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:51PM (#12251609)
Printing those warnings to every end user isn't particularly useful though...
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Re:It’s hard work printing nothing by cpach on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @03:55AM (#12253202)
To be fair, most X applications are not launched from a terminal.
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