This is what forks are for, isn&#x27;t it?   If it&#x27;s that simple, I&#x27;d think a fork could pretty easily start to solve some of GTK+&#x27;s issues.<p>From my perspective, GTK has been mired for a very very long time.   Essentially from its inception it was something that was required for other missions.  There have been tons of volunteers and people working on it but I&#x27;m not sure how much of that was because they needed it vs because that&#x27;s what they love to do.  I also have some suspicions that certain UXy&#x2F;visual type problems just don&#x27;t seem to be good fits for the bazaar model, all my evidence would be tied to GNOME, GTK, and GIMP for the most part so I could see how I might be wrong.  If it&#x27;s being held back by some Redhat folks that are paid to maintain it because Redhat went all in with it decades back, a fork could potentially revitalize it.