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Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support by warning26 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:52PM (#32007275)
XFCE is GTK based, and so is MATE, which is actually a fork of Gnome.
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Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support by phkahler on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:20AM (#32035337)
But they need to either get with Wayland or fork a modern gnome and change the UI.

Forking something and keeping it in a past state isnt really as useful as some think. See OpenOffice vs LibreOffice for example.

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