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

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. Sure many Linux distros come with gtk/Qt, but Sun, IBM, etc. boxes[1] do not, and aging boxes[2] may not have the disk/processing power/graphics card to do so. Sysadmins have enough to do without installing all of gnome (in extremis) just to be able to compile XEmacs. My opinion only, nic[3] Footnotes: [1] Which aren't running Linux! (Or *BSD*, etc.) [2] Used a _lot_ in academia. [3] Who is lucky enough to have a decent Linux box, but used to have horrendous problems when he didn't. -- Dr N.J.Doye, Systems Programmer, NISS, PO Box 2674, Bath. BA2 7XY