diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index acc1a9bb72..2b5bdc8ef7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-04-18  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+	  Bump Gtk+ requirement to 2.12.0 for gtk_range_set_fill_level
+	  (NB: this only affects compilation of some of the examples).
+	  Remove some configure.ac cruft that's not needed any longer.
+
 2008-04-18  Edward Hervey  <edward.hervey@collabora.co.uk>
 
 	* gst/gdp/gstgdpdepay.c: (gst_gdp_depay_chain):
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8f3bb58512..59b46345f3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -266,26 +266,8 @@ GST_PREFIX="`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=prefix gstreamer-$GST_MAJORMINOR`"
 AC_SUBST(GLIB_PREFIX)
 AC_SUBST(GST_PREFIX)
 
-dnl GTK is optional and used in examples
-HAVE_GTK=NO
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK2, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.0, HAVE_GTK_22=yes, HAVE_GTK_22=no)
-if test "x$HAVE_GTK_22" = "xyes"; then
-  HAVE_GTK=yes
-  GTK_VERSION=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=gtk_binary_version gtk+-2.0`
-  AC_SUBST(GTK_VERSION)
-  GTK_PREFIX=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=prefix gdk-pixbuf-2.0`
-  AC_SUBST(GTK_BASE_DIR)
-else
-  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK2, gtk+-2.0, HAVE_GTK_20=yes, HAVE_GTK_20=no)
-fi
-if test "x$HAVE_GTK_20" = "xyes"; then
-  HAVE_GTK=yes
-fi
-GTK_CFLAGS=$GTK2_CFLAGS
-GTK_LIBS=$GTK2_LIBS
-AC_SUBST(GTK_LIBS)
-AC_SUBST(GTK_CFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(HAVE_GTK)
+dnl GTK is optional and only used in examples
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.0, HAVE_GTK=yes, HAVE_GTK=no)
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GTK, test "x$HAVE_GTK" = "xyes")
 
 dnl *** set variables based on configure arguments ***