GTk2 lives on, or why ubiquitous OpenGL 3D compositing desktops are not always a good thing

I recently saw a mailing list post condemning Maté (the GNOME 2 fork)
as something to be deprecated and avoided because it uses Gtk2 and
that is now superseded code.

I think that's a bit sweeping to denigrate all Gtk2 desktops like that.

Yes, GNOME Classic and Cinnamon both offer Windows-like desktops
now with taskbars and start menus. If you don't like Unity or GNOME
Shell, then there are "traditional" alternatives.

But the un-Windows-like nature of Unity and GNOME Shell are not the
only reasons that people use them. There are other issues than the
cosmetics to consider.
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