The official release is still GTK2. All the GTK2 calls that have been deprecated in GTK3 have not yet been replaced in Geany, so the GTK3 compile isn't "clean".
Until recent GTK3s the performance was also noticably poorer than GTK2, and LTS distros may not yet have upgraded to a performant version.
So for now the GTK3 Geany isn't quite suitable for being the default build.
There is nothing stopping distro packagers packaging the GTK3 version of course, and I think some bleeding edge distros have done just that.
On 7 September 2015 at 09:11, Devyn Collier Johnson < notifications@github.com> wrote:
Okay, thanks. Then perhaps my issues are related to something else. However, why does Geany's homepage state that Geany uses GTK2 ( http://geany.org/)?
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