diff --git a/src/dialogs.py b/src/dialogs.py
index e117e3406..2ec740c0f 100644
--- a/src/dialogs.py
+++ b/src/dialogs.py
@@ -401,11 +401,6 @@ _('Contact names must be of the form "user@servername".')).get_response()
 class AboutDialog:
 	'''Class for about dialog'''
 	def __init__(self):
-		if gtk.pygtk_version < (2, 6, 0) or gtk.gtk_version < (2, 6, 0):
-			InformationDialog(_('Gajim - a GTK+ Jabber client'),
-				_('Version %s') % gajim.version)
-			return
-
 		dlg = gtk.AboutDialog()
 		dlg.set_name('Gajim')
 		dlg.set_version(gajim.version)
diff --git a/src/gajim.py b/src/gajim.py
index 36bfba87e..8ba21f467 100755
--- a/src/gajim.py
+++ b/src/gajim.py
@@ -1121,9 +1121,8 @@ class Interface:
 		for account in gajim.config.get_per('accounts'):
 			gajim.connections[account] = common.connection.Connection(account)
 															
-		if gtk.pygtk_version >= (2, 6, 0):
-			gtk.about_dialog_set_email_hook(self.on_launch_browser_mailer, 'mail')
-			gtk.about_dialog_set_url_hook(self.on_launch_browser_mailer, 'url')
+		gtk.about_dialog_set_email_hook(self.on_launch_browser_mailer, 'mail')
+		gtk.about_dialog_set_url_hook(self.on_launch_browser_mailer, 'url')
 		self.windows = {'logs':{}}
 		
 		for a in gajim.connections:
diff --git a/src/groupchat_window.py b/src/groupchat_window.py
index 8a8c73b8b..2350e1d7f 100644
--- a/src/groupchat_window.py
+++ b/src/groupchat_window.py
@@ -392,17 +392,12 @@ class GroupchatWindow(chat.Chat):
 				st += ' (' + status + ')'
 			self.print_conversation(st, room_jid)
 
-
-	
 	def set_subject(self, room_jid, subject):
 		self.subjects[room_jid] = subject
 		name_label = self.name_labels[room_jid]
 		full_subject = None
 
-		if gtk.gtk_version < (2, 6, 0) or gtk.pygtk_version < (2, 6, 0):
-			subject = gtkgui_helpers.reduce_chars_newlines(subject, 80, 2)
-		else:
-			subject = gtkgui_helpers.reduce_chars_newlines(subject, 0, 2)
+		subject = gtkgui_helpers.reduce_chars_newlines(subject, 0, 2)
 		subject = gtkgui_helpers.escape_for_pango_markup(subject)
 		name_label.set_markup(
 		'<span weight="heavy" size="x-large">%s</span>\n%s' % (room_jid, subject))
diff --git a/src/tooltips.py b/src/tooltips.py
index 3a23d71b0..b24b5c770 100644
--- a/src/tooltips.py
+++ b/src/tooltips.py
@@ -139,12 +139,9 @@ class StatusTable:
 			status = status.strip()
 			if status != '':
 				# make sure 'status' is unicode before we send to to reduce_chars...
-				if type(status) == str:
+				if isinstance(status, str):
 					status = unicode(status, encoding='utf-8')
-				if gtk.gtk_version < (2, 6, 0) or gtk.pygtk_version < (2, 6, 0):
-					status = gtkgui_helpers.reduce_chars_newlines(status, 50, 1)
-				else:
-					status = gtkgui_helpers.reduce_chars_newlines(status, 0, 1)
+				status = gtkgui_helpers.reduce_chars_newlines(status, 0, 1)
 				str_status += ' - ' + status
 		return gtkgui_helpers.escape_for_pango_markup(str_status)