Re: kde-xemacs or gnome-xemacs?
Gerald Gutierrez <gutier(a)intergate.bc.ca> writes:
Has there been any thought going into the possibility of having a
gnome-aware or kde-aware XEmacs? Such would allow XEmacs to visually
fit into its surroundings via theming and would allow people to
drag-and-drop stuff for editing, amongst other things.
So long a you do not go as far changing the toolkit, this is a very
sane idea. In fact people have given it thought, but development is a
bit stalled.
Is this technically difficult to achieve?
It depends on how integrated you want thinks to be. Porting to a
different toolkit is very hard. Direct CORBA support in XEmacs would
be very nice but also not easy.
The Bonobo people have a prototype where they project the XEmacs main
window as a component in an otherwise GTK environment. That seems to
be the closest you can with regard to that
Oliver Graf <ograf(a)fga.de> is working on the D&D support which is
probably the best start, but he seems to be busy and might need some
help.
Reading the color and pixmap preferences from some Gnome or KDE file
should be trivial but nobody has done that yet.
Jan