On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> they have a way to use/provide both kinds of service (gtk I think was one
> of them)


gtk3 has pluggable backends, although the current gtk3 port is not set up
to use them. gtk2 is a monolith: you have to choose the backend at build
time (and aspects of it leak out, so not all programs using gtk2 work with
all backends even if rebuilt).

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