Browser Development • Re: Linux Pale Moon with Qt toolkit
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May 14, 2026
Well, you thankfully still can compile PM against GTK2, the only problem with the latter being with distros that stop providing packages for it...
Thus why a Qt port feels more than desirable to me: it avoids the GTK 3/4 plague, and still allows to use GTK2 themes (i.e. no difference in "look and feel" with today's GTK2 PM builds)...
That's why we forked gtk2 and soon lots of gtk2 software and DEs. We want to prevent the deprecation of gtk2 and there's a good chance we can stop it, because major software still uses it in one way or another. For example Ardour or the Debian graphical installer.
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