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Well yeah, if you use a gnome app, it'll look like a gnome app.

In other news, if you use green paint, it'll paint things green.

GTK was a GUI toolkit, it was DE agnostic and also cross platform (though it looked like shit). But as we can see from your comment GTK was captured by GNOME to be a GNOME exclusive project, if a change broke XFCE , GNOME people pretended they do not know what an XFCE is.

GTK has long been under the GNOME umbrella.

The XFCE folks are welcome to fork GTK to support their own use cases.

>GTK has long been under the GNOME umbrella.

Did you know that GTK was a cross platform tookit, even on Windows and Mac OS? Andf you did not had to install GNOME on Windows to use a GTK app, because it was a tooklit for making apps, and GNOME was a project that combine GTK apps, and a window manager to make a DE.

Many apps ported to Qt so I don't think there is a chance that GTK will get a viable fork, Qt will be the only cross platform toolkit

Nice, the now popular dev worldview "break things, and break things often". Just for the sake of breaking. I love it, why didn't we stumble earlier over this magnificent piece of discovery.

They don't need to fork it. GTK is only tied to GNOME for maintenance and development. Using GTK in an app doesn't make it a GNOME app.

I didn't know chromium was a gnome app. Now I hate them for manifest v3.

It's a GTK app, not a GNOME app. I mean, it uses GTK, but it has no dependency on the GNOME desktop.

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