vim - GTK2 or GTK3?

[David Demelier]

Le 20/02/2019 à 08:16, Kevin Oberman a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:26 AM David Demelier <markand at malikania.fr 
> <mailto:markand at malikania.fr>> wrote:
> 
>     Le 19/02/2019 à 04:44, Jan Beich a écrit :
>      > Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org <mailto:adamw at adamw.org>> writes:
>      >
>      >> I'm curious whether the default Vim port should use GTK2 or GTK3 as
>      >> its UI toolkit, but I use neither so I need input from people here.
>      >>
>      >> Right now it defaults to GTK2, but I'm suspecting that more
>     people use
>      >> GTK3 these days. I haven't run X in about 10 years, so I don't
>     really
>      >> know one way or the other. If anybody on this list has thoughts
>     about
>      >> GTK2 vs GTK3 (or something else!) as the default, I'd love to
>     hear it.
> 
>     Gtk2 is deprecated and does not support high DPI displays, so it's
>     already a reason to not use it anymore.
> 
>     -- 
>     David
> 
> When did that happen? I run Mate desktop which is gtk2 based as are a 
> great many ports.

Deprecated does not mean it does not work :) It just means it don't get 
bugfixes and that it should not be used in new code.

Regards