diff --git a/cmake/gtk.cmake b/cmake/gtk.cmake
index 771c40d4..5438931c 100644
--- a/cmake/gtk.cmake
+++ b/cmake/gtk.cmake
@@ -7,14 +7,8 @@ MACRO(_MOO_GET_PKG_CONFIG_VARIABLE cmakevar pkgconfigvar pkgname)
   STRING(STRIP ${${cmakevar}} ${cmakevar})
 ENDMACRO(_MOO_GET_PKG_CONFIG_VARIABLE)
 
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB REQUIRED glib-2.0>=2.14)
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK REQUIRED gtk+-2.0 glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gthread-2.0 gobject-2.0)
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GIO gio-2.0)
-
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK REQUIRED gtk+-2.0 glib-2.0 gio-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gthread-2.0 gobject-2.0)
 LIST(APPEND MOO_DEP_LIBS ${GTK_LIBRARIES})
-IF(GIO_FOUND)
-  LIST(APPEND MOO_DEP_LIBS ${GIO_LIBRARIES})
-ENDIF(GIO_FOUND)
 
 MOO_ADD_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS(RELEASE -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT)
 MOO_ADD_COMPILER_FLAGS(GCC WIN32 -mms-bitfields)
diff --git a/config.cmake b/config.cmake
index dbc8797f..c28ae434 100644
--- a/config.cmake
+++ b/config.cmake
@@ -53,35 +53,6 @@ MACRO(MOO_CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER struct field incfile varname)
 ENDMACRO(MOO_CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER)
 
 
-IF(NOT GIO_FOUND)
-  INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${MOO_SOURCE_DIR}/moo/mooutils/newgtk/glib-2.16)
-
-  MOO_CHECK_HEADERS(dirent.h float.h limits.h pwd.h grp.h sys/param.h sys/poll.h sys/resource.h)
-  MOO_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/time.h sys/times.h sys/wait.h unistd.h values.h)
-  MOO_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/select.h sys/types.h stdint.h sched.h malloc.h)
-  MOO_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/vfs.h sys/mount.h sys/vmount.h sys/statfs.h sys/statvfs.h)
-  MOO_CHECK_HEADERS(mntent.h sys/mnttab.h sys/vfstab.h sys/mntctl.h sys/sysctl.h fstab.h)
-
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct stat" st_mtimensec "sys/stat.h" HAVE_STAT_ST_MTIMENSEC)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct stat" st_mtim.tv_nsec "sys/stat.h" HAVE_STAT_ST_MTIM_TV_NSEC)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct stat" st_atimensec "sys/stat.h" HAVE_STAT_ST_ATIMENSEC)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct stat" st_ctimensec "sys/stat.h" HAVE_STAT_ST_CTIMENSEC)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct stat" st_ctim.tv_nsec "sys/stat.h" HAVE_STAT_ST_CTIM_TV_NSEC)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct stat" st_blksize "sys/stat.h" HAVE_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct stat" st_blocks "sys/stat.h" HAVE_STAT_ST_BLOCKS)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct statfs" f_fstypename "sys/statfs.h" HAVE_STATFS_F_FSTYPENAME)
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct statfs" f_bavail "sys/statfs.h" HAVE_STATFS_F_BAVAIL)
-
-  # struct statvfs.f_basetype is available on Solaris but not for Linux.
-  CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER("struct statvfs" f_basetype sys/statvfs.h HAVE_STATFS_F_BASETYPE)
-
-  # Check for some functions
-  MOO_CHECK_FUNCTIONS(lstat strerror strsignal memmove vsnprintf stpcpy strcasecmp strncasecmp poll getcwd vasprintf setenv unsetenv getc_unlocked readlink symlink fdwalk)
-  MOO_CHECK_FUNCTIONS(chown lchown fchmod fchown link statvfs statfs utimes getgrgid getpwuid)
-  MOO_CHECK_FUNCTIONS(getmntent_r setmntent endmntent hasmntopt getmntinfo)
-ENDIF(NOT GIO_FOUND)
-
-
 # for xdgmime
 MOO_CHECK_FUNCTIONS(getc_unlocked)
 # for GMappedFile and xdgmime
diff --git a/moo/mooutils/CMakeLists.txt b/moo/mooutils/CMakeLists.txt
index c0ad7d8e..efe8a50f 100644
--- a/moo/mooutils/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/moo/mooutils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -208,10 +208,6 @@ MOO_GEN_PIXMAP_FILE(moofileicon-symlink.h
   SYMLINK_ARROW_SMALL symlink-small.png
 )
 
-IF(GLIB_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.16.0")
-  ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(newgtk)
-ENDIF(GLIB_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.16.0")
-
 MOO_ADD_MOO_CODE_MODULE(mooutils)
 
 ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(xdgmime)