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Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Drops GTK+ Option In Favor Of Its "YTK" Fork
The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon 'YTK' as its own localized fork of this toolkit.
In early 2024 the popular Adour digital audio workstation software introduced its own localized, stripped down version of the GTK2 toolkit. The initial motivation for introducing this stripped down version of GTK as "YTK" was due to some Linux distributions removing GTK2 libraries from their repositories. So to make it easier to build the Ardour DAW while Linux distributions work to remove GTK2, they carried a stripped down version of the code themselves.
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