Mats Lidell writes:
>>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
> GTK+.
Will that solve the problem for us with current Xft support not being
good enough for making 21.5 stable?
Dunno. I avoid g-stuff where possible, but if somebody *else*
actually contributes an up-to-date port of GTK+ that clearly obsoletes
Athena- based builds it certainly could. (Being generous about
"obsolete"; some people -- including me -- just dislike the GTK+
look-and-feel, but that's not a fair standard for refusing to declare
a stable release). But you'll have to get schedule from people
actually interest
However, "obviously obsoletes" is even so a pretty big barrier. AFAIK
there are still big difficulties with the GTK+ event loop from the
point of view of XEmacs. Nobody has yet implemented multi-server
support over the GTK+ event loop in XEmacs AFAIK, for example. Also,
GNU Emacs regularly has nasty bugs related to G-stuff. While
currently it mostly has to do with glib bogosity that crops up because
GNU has lots of stuff that requires glib even in an Xt-based Emacs and
often they're long-since fixed/worked-around in their GTK+ build,
XEmacs hasn't even started to deal with that stuff.
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