Re: Bug#171116: ITP: tsclient -- GNOME2 frontend for rdesktop

[Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>]

I agree with this logic. Generally if I search for a GTK 2.x theme 
engine with apt-cache, I search for gtk2-blah, not gtk-blah, since by 
convention gtk- strictly means gtk 1.x only.

Andrew Lau wrote:

> But some people do deliberately "apt-cache search GNOME 2" to find new
> GTK+2.0 based software that they want to try out. A lot of software
> that was originally written for GNOME 1.x, but still have no GNOME 2
> equivalent are more often than not no longer maintained by upstream,
> and thus avoided by some. It's psychology, I'm afraid. Almost every
> other GNOME 2 application is doing this as well.