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		bronson on March 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 The existence of MATE indicates the torches were never abandoned.

pengaru on March 22, 2020 [–]

Only if you conflate the users with the existing pool of GTK/GNOME developers and maintainers of the time.

I'm thrilled to see that fork attract enough new talent to apparently maintain itself and meet the needs of what's a relatively small fraction of linux desktop users.

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