I know what GTK stands for :) I&#x27;m just saying it fails at that use case. It&#x27;s actually fine for Gnome, I don&#x27;t mind Gnome 3 at all, took some getting used to but it&#x27;s working fine for me and I like the way it looks with some themes and extensions (Arc theme is great IMO and dock extension + alt-tab no group is all I need). Where GTK+ fails is providing GUI components that can be compact and information dense, all of it&#x27;s widgets and layouts are designed arround white space heavy low density content&#x2F;GUI - that just doesn&#x27;t work for complex apps - GIMP&#x2F;Inkscape being prime examples of bad GUI it creates.