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* bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support
@ 2017-03-19 23:14 Glenn Morris
  2017-03-23  8:01 ` martin rudalics
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2017-03-19 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 26180

Package: emacs
Version: 25.2
Severity: wishlist

I'd like to suggest removing support for the Motif toolkit.

Motivation:
Supporting more toolkits (gtk2, gtk3, lucid, motif, none) makes it
harder to develop relevant low-level features.

The Motif toolkit build of Emacs seems to be very little used:
  - Fedora packages just a Gtk version
  - Debian packages Gtk and Lucid
  - Only ~20 mentions of "motif" on bug-gnu-emacs, ever. Most are just
  comparison testing

(I see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs mentions it, but my
suspicion is that this is just an attempt at completeness when listing
alternatives to Gtk. Since it's listed first, I wonder if this has
caused more people to use it than otherwise would. All just speculation
on my part.)

(The "none" toolkit is also never used in practice, but I understand it
may be useful as a base/reference.)





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2017-03-19 23:14 bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support Glenn Morris
2017-03-23  8:01 ` martin rudalics
2017-03-23  8:07   ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-03-23  8:15     ` martin rudalics
2017-04-03 20:49       ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-04  7:26         ` martin rudalics
2021-02-13  9:29 ` Glenn Morris
2021-02-14 12:55   ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-14 13:32     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 13:37       ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-14 13:45         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 17:16     ` martin rudalics
2022-02-08  6:51 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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