Re: A gtk/kde-xemacs... a modest toolbar/menubar proposal...

<nic(a)niss.ac.uk&gt; writes: > Jens Lautenbacher wrote on 21-March-2000: > > ->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 > ->can be compiled on quite a big range of unix machines (and on win32, > ->too by the way, although I don't think that this will be an option the > ->win32 people like to consider). > > Removing X/Xt support from XEmacs would result in all of us being sent > to bed with no supper. I'm not talking about _removing_ it. I'm talking about having another option. Basically if you ask for gtk support (I don't think this would be turned on by default except in infodock), you lose certain features, like: - multi-display capabilities (until gtk supports it) - Xt integration But you gain: - gnome integration (feh) - themes (oh boy I'm all hot now) - Ability to write real gtk applications from emacs lisp Basically, this is just replacing the lwlib cruft with gtk widgets and then doing rep-gtk (http://rep-gtk.sourceforge.net) for the 'real' emacs-lisp. -Bill P.