Originally posted by Akka
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I don't know as much about gtk, but I am under the impression that it is not as modular. This would mean that adding a new backend is a major job that affects a lot of other things and will make removing it much more difficult. If that is accurate, and considering the recent bad blood over Unity vs. Gnome Shell, I think the chance of the gtk backend being upstreamed is much smaller.
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