Re: Drag-N-Drop
>>>> "MB" == Martin Buchholz
<martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "Gunnar" == Gunnar Evermann
<ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
Gunnar> Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
>> Olivier Graf is supposed to be working on Xdnd support (which
is the
>> standard GNOME and KDE agreed on).
>>
>> However we haven't heard from in 6 months or so. If you want to work on it
>> I suggest you try to contact him first. If he is to busy it would be
>> nice if somebody could take over.
Gunnar> speaking of DnD... I propose we disable DnD by default at least for
Gunnar> all 21.1.x versions. I think Oliver agreed to do this a long time ago
Gunnar> but nobody ever bothered to send the patch.
Gunnar> Could one of the configure gurus make a patch for that? thanks!
MB> This patch is completely untested, but it `must be right'[1].
I haven't got any feedback, so I'm going to apply this to 21.1 and
21.2. When Drag-N-Drop has an active maintainer looking for bugs to
fix, we can turn the option on again by default.
I've noticed that in my configure wrapper, I force this option to `off'.
MB> Don't forget to run autoconf. Could someone test that it has the
MB> desired effect?
MB> Index: configure.in
MB> ===================================================================
MB> RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/configure.in,v
MB> retrieving revision 1.135
MB> diff -u -r1.135 configure.in
MB> --- configure.in 1999/11/02 04:17:06 1.135
MB> +++ configure.in 1999/12/12 10:58:58
MB> ＠＠ -379,6 +379,8 ＠＠
MB> with_tty=""
MB> use_union_type="no"
MB> with_dnet=""
MB> +dnl dragndrop is still experimental. When it is stable, comment out the following
line:
MB> +with_dragndrop="no"
MB> dnl ------------------
MB> dnl Options Processing
MB> [1] You'd think computer professionals would stop using that phrase.