Spotify for Linux uses GTK2 which is End of life EOL now

[NicoHood]

GTK2 has reached its end of life. Correct me if I am wrong, but spotify still uses GTK2. That should be fixed now, almost every other application is GTK3 ready now.

I am also maintaining the spotify package for the archlinux user repository and I am an Arch Linux staff member. If you need any feedback from our side, I am happy to help out 🙂

Also see:
https://archlinux.org/todo/gtk-2-eol/
https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/

It does mean, however, that GTK 2 has reached the end of its life. We will do one final 2.x release in the coming days, and we encourage everybody to port their GTK 2 applications to GTK 3 or 4.

[ChrisLane]

Related but older post: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Any-plans-to-port-spotify-to-GTK3/m-p/5096205#M20235

[Ebristol117]

any chance youve got a version of spoitfy that works with arch linux and system trays? i cant seem to get it working on manjaro which is using the 5.10 kernel.

[Juxuanu]

This would allow to start supporting Wayland.

CEF already does too with Ozone.

Also, 4 days ago, CEF was set to use gtk3 by default on compile.

https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/commit/c4baba880e0b28ce82845275b328a12b2407e2f0

https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/commit/020ac1b509726604bedd4097230389fe22f66fc4