Editing XMMS (section)

===Forks===
XMMS has continued to use [[GTK+]] 1.x toolkit, despite the current version being [[GTK#GTK4|GTK 4]]. The primary reason for this reluctance to upgrade is that many XMMS plugins (written by third parties) are dependent on the older version of GTK+ to properly function, ''e.g.'', "about" boxes and configuration dialogs. Many software developers also consider the XMMS codebase to be poorly designed and difficult to maintain. These factors led to various [[fork (software)|forks]] and related projects:

* The Beep Media Player, a fork of XMMS code that uses GTK+ 2, started around 2003
** Youki, the remade continuation of Beep Media Player, started around the end of 2005<ref>{{cite web | year = 2009 | url = http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1225067 | title = Youki - Audio Player  | publisher = Ubuntu Forums | access-date = 2010-05-18}}</ref>
** [[Audacious Media Player|Audacious]], a fork from Beep Media Player started around 2005 when Beep Media Player development ceased in favor of Youki
* A GTK+2 based fork by Mohammed Sameer, named XMMS2. It is unrelated to the current [[XMMS2]] project, which uses a new codebase and [[client/server]] architecture not derived from XMMS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://xmms2.org/wiki/History/Prehistory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828120028/http://xmms2.org/wiki/History/Prehistory|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 28, 2010|title=History/Prehistory|quote=As the number of applications using (or switching to) GTK2 grows, users grow dissatisfied with the XMMS team's inertia, regarding GTK2 support. Milosz Derezynski forks XMMS to begin the Beep Media Player project, while Mohammed Sameer does the same and names his effort 'XMMS2'. Sameer's project is eventually abandoned, and he relinquishes the 'XMMS2' name.}}</ref>