Re: comments on xemacs --with-gtk

Mats> Well it seems like an interesting project but I guess with Mats> no knowledge about GTK it might be a very long startup? I don't think GTK as such is as hard as XEmacs internals. In order to support multiple device types we need to glue the devices to XEmacs in ways that often seem unnatural to "natives" of those devices. Mats> I have seen that the tabs are missing but is there anything Mats> else that is known not to work? I have also heard about Mats> something called Gtk2 and that making things work for both Mats> Gtk1 and Gtk2 can be hard. I think Bill P said that, too; I don't recall whether he thought supporting both was do-able or whether he was recommending abandoning GTK 1 support in favor of GTK 2. Mats> Are we talking about one or two ports here? Or are we Mats> talking about even more ports? Gnome, Kde? ' Currently GNOME piggybacks on GTK. I don't think continuing GNOME support is a problem. KDE is a whole different issue, since it depends on a Qt. There is a Qt port, do "cvs status -v version.sh" and search the output to find the Qt tag if you want to check it out. However, AFAIK that's just proof of concept, although we did have a thread in which we got rms to sanction it (Qt is not free on Windows, or at least is wasn't at that time). Mats> If someone knowledgeable could spread some light on this it Mats> might be easier to get some coding done. If you want to do some coding, write directly to Bill Perry <wmperry(a)xemacs.org&gt;. He is very busy, but he's the only expert and would probably respond to someone who's looking for a little advice. And who knows---with luck, he might decide it's time to jump back in. ;-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.