from the gtk+ 2.2 announcement:
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Support for new X extensions, standards, and libraries:
GTK+-2.2 adds support for the RANDR extension for screen
size changes and for startup notification via a draft
freedesktop.org protocol. Interoperability with Qt for
inter-application embedding via the XEMBED protocol has
been improved. With support for version 2 of the Xft library,
antialiased text can be displayed even on older X servers.
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