Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "GTK" in English language version.
Yes, you read this right! Gwenview started its life as a GTK+ application!
The X11 and Broadway backends have been deprecated, as a clear signal that we intend to remove them in the GTK 5. In the meantime, they continue to be available.
Can I improve the performance of my application by using another backend of cairo (such as GL)? No. Most drawing in GTK is not done via cairo anymore (but instead by the GL or Vulkan renderers of GSK).
All drawing in GTK 3 is done via Cairo.
Yes, you read this right! Gwenview started its life as a GTK+ application!
All drawing in GTK 3 is done via Cairo.