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I spend hours trying to fix this stupid error and nothing work, please help

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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gimp is likely still using gtk2, which means you need a theme that supports gtk2. That's probably old and un-maintained, since gtk2 has been End-Of-Life for a while now. gimp 3.0 is approaching though.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Is gtk not backward compatible with older version?

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 13 points 2 days ago

Additionally, I think 3.18 onward doesn't even support theming engines. As said, though, GIMP is stuck on GTK2.

If you're having a lot of trouble, perhaps just go with the Flatpak.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Is gtk not backward compatible with older version?

New main versions of software usually is not compatible with old versions. That's one of the points of new main versions. You cannot load Qt 3 themes into Qt 6 either.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 17 points 2 days ago

No. GTK 3 was a breaking change, and so was 4.

They tend to use different theming engines each major version, so I don't believe they are.