Red Hat has announced the end of support for the GTK 2 library, starting with the next branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The gtk2 package will not be included in the RHEL 10 release, which will only support GTK 3 and GTK 4. The reason for the removal of GTK 2 is the obsolescence of the toolkit and the lack of support for modern technologies such as Wayland, HiDPI, and HDR.
It is expected that programs that remain tied to GTK 2, such as GIMP, will transition to the new GTK branches by 2025, when the RHEL 10 release is anticipated. In Ubuntu 22.04, 504 packages use libgtk2 as a dependency.
Source: opennet.ru
