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It utilizes GTK (Version 2) as it's underlying graphics Toolkit. "Qt" has already paid the price, (mostly), of throwing out their badly designed, badly implemented old stuff and creating a more maintainable version. But GTK is pretty moribund; they'll fix bugs, but if you're adding any sort of new feature, it's likely to take YEARS. (Been there, done that: I wrote original English-only, 32-bit "demonstration" code to provide a file size size column in GtkFileChooser(), and it took several years before the feature was finalized with i10 and architecture independence by a real GTK coder.) continued....
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