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Yes! Gnome 2 was great. I miss those days. The whole Gnome is a disappointment now. The GTK-4 doesn't even have the traditional menu and menubar widgets. I don't know what the Gimp people and the Inkscape people are going to do.

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https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.PopoverMenuBar.html

Both GtkMenu and GtkMenuBar are gone in GTK 4. Now threre is GtkPopoverMenu and GtkPopoverMenuBar. The GtkPopoverMenu is not a drop-in replacement for GtkMenu.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/using-gtkpopovermenu-as-a-gtkm...

Mate is a nice option if you want Gnome 2 but don't want to live in the past. It's very pleasant.

Yes, Mate is indeed a decent desktop for people who like GNOME 2. But GTK people are removing features left and right. I don't know how Mate is going to cope with that.

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