> Never understood why it went away from most distributions forever.

CADT.

"Because of the release of GNOME 2.0 and 2.2, and the lack of interest in maintainership of GNOME 1.4, the gnome-core product is being closed. If you feel your bug is still of relevance to GNOME 2, please reopen it and refile it against a more appropriate component. Thanks... "

Xmms uses gtk 2 i think. GTK is now at version 4 or 5.