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So is it a new kind of libgnomeui? https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/LibgnomeMustDie#libgnomeui

Ouch, there's some bitter irony in all of this. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/ProjectRidley for an explanation of the goals of this project, which now seems to be what GTK is trying to get away from again.

Not really?

> As Owen said in a recent GTK+ meeting, when looking over the list of APIs that we are discussing here, there are basically three categories:

> A) Cross-platform API - things that make sense on Windows / OS X

> B) X / freedesktop.org-specific API

> C) GNOME-specific API

> APIs in category A. are clearly suitable for moving to GTK+, APIs in category B. may or may not be suitable, and things in category C. are better off in a GNOME-specific library.

So even back then the official stance was that GNOME specific stuff belongs in external libs.

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