Gnome replaces Unity

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:50:29 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
>On 14/10/17 18:39, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Unity, GNOME 3 & Cinnamon use a newer version, Gtk3.
>> 
>> However, it's now been several years and Gtk3 has stabilised.
>> 
>> XFCE 4.12 has switched to it.  
>
>Has it?
>
>https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.12/roadmap/gtk3
>
>According to that it seems not, and the last I read about it that
>effort was still underway...

Ubuntu and Arch Linux build libxfce4ui against gtk2 and gtk3.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=artful&searchon=names&keywords=libxfce4ui

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ sudo systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/archlinux/ 2>/dev/null pacman -Si libxfce4ui | grep Ve
Version         : 4.12.1-2
[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ sudo systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/archlinux/ 2>/dev/null pacman -Si libxfce4ui | grep De
Description     : Commonly used Xfce widgets among Xfce applications
Depends On      : libxfce4util  gtk2  gtk3  xfconf  libsm  startup-notification  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps   : None