vim - GTK2 or GTK3?

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2019-01-02 10:42, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 01:07:24PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> The Vim choices are currently a mess, but it'll get better once
>> subpackages land.
> 
> Firefox and Chromium both depend on GTK3, so it's highly likely that a
> typical desktop user has GTK3 installed.

+1, GTK3 is probably the best choice.

As a side note, it looks like libreoffice defaults to GTK2 as well, 
perhaps it should be switched to GTK3 also?
Regards
-- 
Niclas