A new version of Geany arrived on my Distro today (Gentoo) and they've added GTK3 as a new feature to Geany. Since its Gentoo you're free to choose what you want to compile but because of this i got aware of the situation that Geany might drop support of GTK2 in a near future. While its currently still possible to compile Geany with GTK2, i would really love to see this GTK2 version of Geany stay alive for quite some time. I am one of those users running a mostly GTK2 only desktop which is still possible if you're using XFCE. GTK2 is fast and rock solid stable. I just don't like GTK3 and it feels broken to me. I don't want to debate about GTK3 here but there is an example out there that made me feel bad about a possible change into a GTK3 only version of Geany.

While coding, i work with Gitg next to Geany. They also had a pretty good GTK2 version of their software out there. But they've decided to rewrite it to GTK3 only. The result was an unstable and slow program. Next to this, with almost every update of GTK3 the interface of Gitg changes. Sometimes better and sometimes worse.

I really love what you've done for Geany and it is a great tool to work with. Its rock solid, fast, it never crashed for me and that's what i love about it! I would love to keep it that way. Thanks!

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