William M Perry <wmperry(a)aventail.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
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But, using Qt would bring in horrendous licensing issues.
Please. Not this again. I thought the Qt licensing issue was dead
with Qt-2.0.
Trying to get RMS and Sun to allow linking with Qt - I'd rather
stick a railroad spike thru my chest than try to argue that one.
I don't care what Stallman thinks. What does Sun have to do with
anything? They gave us the XEmacs code and it's GPL'ed.
If there are solid, technical reasons why Gtk is a better toolkit for
XEmacs/InfoDock than Qt that's O.K. I would prefer not to see Qt
dismissed solely for stupid, political in-fighting reasons.
Having X/Xt resources work is in my opinion useless.
It isn't useless now! I would be very happy to see it made useless
though.
XEmacs runs on other platforms that do not have X resources (win32,
macintosh, and tty spring to mind). We should encourage people to
use custom instead of X resources.
Custom needs to understand fonts, especially Mule fonts, sensibly. We
also need to be able to change everything from Lisp, which we still
don't allow yet.