Re: The gutter is gone

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Miller <jmiller(a)cablespeed.com&gt; writes: Jeff> i don't recall these cases... it seemed to work ok for me. Yes, it mostly worked for most people. There were a couple of cases where it insisted on doing the wrong thing. Jeff> it's not documented. --with-widgets isn't even mentioned in Jeff> the INSTALL file. That's a bug in the INSTALL file, then. Jeff> if you do "configure --help" it tell you that "lucid, motif, Jeff> athena, or no" are the metioned options. A bug in configure.usage. I believe gtk and yes are also accepted. It's possible that a patch got overlooked here, as ISTR somebody submitting a patch to synch configure.usage to reality.

Jeff> And when people look in PROBLEMS, will that help them? no. I don't see a PROBLEM, here, once the documentation is fixed. Jeff> are widgets to be considered truly optional? The customize Jeff> buffers are pretty useless without them. They had better not be useless! Ugly, OK, but not useless. If they are, that's a bug in the implementation of the widgets or the particular platform. Custom has some ugly bitmaps that it uses when native buttons and toggles aren't available.

As I say, a rework of configure to get the toolkits right would be a good idea. But there were a couple of people who were not getting an xemacs if they simply used ./configure.