Users fear GNOME will abolish GTK2, and that Gnome and Redhat have a monopoly over the Gnu+Linux world (thus control over the entire system)

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Why does Gnome get to have power over what was the GIMP toolkit?
Why do they get to userp and control us? Why do they control the 
software ecosystem? Who made them boss?

> no it got fatter with the GTK3 transition just like xfce. remember GTK3 
> is only useful for people who make software that can take advantage of 
> it features. basic desktops like xfce and mate were fine on GTK2 and 
> only got bloated going to GTK3.
>
> Everyone transitioning to GTK3 is a sign of fear that the GNOME devs 
> will abolish GTK2 in the near future. GNOME and Red Hat hold a monopoly 
> over the Linux world.