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by anon4 3840 days ago
GTK2 was a universal toolkit. Only with GTK3 the developers stated they're absolutely focusing only on a toolkit for GNOME and everyone else can take a hike.
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> everyone else can take a hike.

More like: if anybody else wants to make GTK work better with other platforms, they're welcome to do it.

It may have been a universal toolkit, but if the people that made it so disappear, it's unlikely it will continue to be universal in the future; that's just the way it is.