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With the release of new version of the GTK + widget toolkit, which was used to construct the user interface of Galeon, the team decided to write a new version of Galeon from scratch.

At the same time the GNOME project has adopted its new Human Interface Guidelines, which promoted simplicity and uniform design.

The Galeon team had differing opinions on the new guidelines.

The author and lead developer, Marco Pesenti Gritti, endorsed them and saw the rewrite as an opportunity to make Galeon simpler.

Many other developers believed that reducing the number of preferences and simplifying the user interface would harm the project.