Re: Patches to split the Options/Font menu based on the first char
Tudor Hulubei wrote:
> But still, a gtk port doesn't mean that we'll get rid of
the other
> ports that we have already
Why not? If GTK & Qt are portable enough, I think it would be much
better to get rid of the old stuff completely.
a) Because GTK & Qt are both non-standard. Neither uses Xt or X
resources, which pretty much guarantees that they don't integrate well
with other X applications (unless you only ever use GTK/Qt based
applications, which is pretty rare on anything other than Linux).
b) The last time that I checked, GTK didn't support multiple displays
(I don't know about Qt).
c) Because it just isn't going to happen. You can't stop people from
maintaining support for Xt, and I (for one ) am not going to see
support for the *standard* X toolkit dropped without a fight.
The code will be much
cleaner and the experience more consistent. If some platforms
don't
have the toolkit, then the user will be required to install that
first. Isn't that the same as with the png library?
No. You don't *have* to have libpng to run XEmacs under X. You just
need X (note: libXt is as much a part of X as libX11 is).
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Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk>