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). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net