On 25 May 2000, William M. Perry <wmperry(a)aventail.com> wrote:
> So I made XEmacs be based on the GnomeApp widget if it is available
> and now all the menu items yell at me! Oh the horrror! Make it stop,
> oh please, make it stop!
Um, indeed. Is it impolite to ask if that behavior will have a nice big
red button labeled 'never use the GNOME stuff because it mostly sucks?'
Probably spelled '--without-gnome' :)
> But at least now you can put the menubar at the bottom of the window.
> Oh my haven't widget sets come a long way. Bleah.
FWIW, GTK with the 'Xenomorph' drawing tool is actually fairly
tolerable. The tear-off menu bit is kind of wonky, but the rest of it is
OK.
GNOME still pretty much bites though.[1]
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] No offonce intended to those who actually like it...
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