Re: A gtk/kde-xemacs... a modest toolbar/menubar proposal...
At 04:24 PM 3/21/00 +0100, Jens Lautenbacher wrote:
now I'm really not in the position to argue on technical stuff
with
people like Ben or Bill or Michael, but shouldn't we at least consider
to remove some of the backward compatibility stuff for xemacs? gtk
This would be stupidity IMHO by hacking off a large number of users. But
its also unneccessary - just treat gtk as a different platform and then
build either for Xt or gtk but not both. In fact I would advocate treating
gtk as a completely different device/console etc because then you *could*
build with support for both (as you can under cygwin with mswindows)
without the two interfering with each other. Trying to integrate the two
seems doomed to failure IMHO.
Now we have a growing set of features that can be used to a varying
extent on various platforms, and as far as I can tell, for all the nice
graphics stuff it's the win32 platform that works best. The only toolkit
that is
a) free
b) stable enough
c) available on enough platforms
d) able to at least compete featurewise with the win32 toolkit
is gtk.
Well right, I think these are the good reasons for doing a gtk port, but
when we did the mswindows port we didn't stop supporting X ....
andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd