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Re:WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops by epcoa on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:40PM (#43155628)
Not sure what you’re referring to.

Gtk 1.2 did not really have great Win32 support, was basically a one man show primarily to get gimp to run on Windows. The Win32 backend took off after gtk2, there was more commercial push from Ximian to make it a cross platform toolkit via Gtk# as well. And it wasn’t dropped in 3 or 4, though it definitely has lost development steam as commercial interest in it and cross platform desktop GUI toolkits in general has flagged and consolidated.

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Re:WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops by asveikau on Monday February 24, 2025 @02:17PM (#43163673)
I think I had it one major release off. It was probably the gtk3 era. I read comments on the mailing list that you basically shouldn't rely on Win32 support.

You're right that gdk2 ramped up Win32 support, I remember that now.

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