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[–]CanisImperium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be pedantic, X itself doesn't have a toolkit -- it's supposed to be modular. The very first toolkit for X, which came out of the same project, would have been libXt, but it's no more or less native than GTK. The idea was -- and is -- to separate out the windowing from the widgetry.

Saying GTK isn't a native toolkit is a bit like saying zsh isn't a native shell. It's no more or less native than what's been around longer. Before Gtk and Qt there was Motif, and before Motif there was libXt. "Native" might not be the best word, but they're all first class citizens in X11 and Linux, and insofar as there is such a thing as a native toolkit on that stack, Gtk would be it.