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> * no openGL acceleration, no 3D eye candy

The lesstif HID uses 2D acceleration though

> * additional newbie irritation

Yup, it's not newbie-friendly.  Not supposed to be.

> * additional complexity in the documentation

Yup.

> * a major developer of PCB keeps himself detached from code portions
>   that are related to GTK.

Too bad.  I don't like GTK.

> BTW, an application that uses GTK is in no way automatically
> associated with Gnome.

I've found that to be less and less the case as the gnome foundation
releases new versions.