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What do you mean "not anymore"? You can't rewrite history... The G in GTK comes from GIMP. It was formerly called GIMP ToolKit.
I was replying to the comment thread suggesting they should switch to Qt.
Ah, well you probably should've replied to the root then.
By not anymore, I precisely mean that it's not "GIMP ToolKit" anymore, it's just GTK with no meaning at all.