Re: toolkit wars again
Olivier Galibert writes:
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:17:07AM -0400, Kyle Jones wrote:
> And I will help you. We need to mess with more toolkits like we
> need a shotgun blast to the knees. In order to get somewhere you
> have to leave things alone that are already working. We need to
> lose this inferiority complex about ourselves and our code.
Prithee, tell me where you want to go ?
A compiler for Lisp code that produces C code. Display improvements,
like text that wraps around images, pixel-based scrolling, background
color transparency in more image types, subwindow support, beveling
as an extent property. Worthwhile FSF Emacs features like indirect
buffers. My goal, when I'm not fixing bugs and making XEmacs run
faster, is to make incremental improvements to what we already have.
GUI and system abstraction is, I personally think, a worthy
goal. It opens the door to easy ports to MacOs X, BeOS and
whatever other environments someone may want to play with[1].
I agree that this is a worthwhile goal. But that isn't what was
suggested. What was suggested was ditching the Lucid code what we
have now and replacing it with something else. Even if we keep
the Lucid stuff, is supporting another toolkit under X worthwhile,
when we already have functional menus and scrollbars? What would
we get out of this as a reward for the work and misery?