From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK file selector Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:08:37 +1300 Message-ID: <17315.7877.155144.973236@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <1134552456.439fe58850f31@imp5-g19.free.fr> <878xuma53q.fsf@jurta.org> <17313.37186.344268.487103@parhasard.net> <87d5jxsgib.fsf@jurta.org> <17314.42778.220813.47226@parhasard.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134770304 15203 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 21:58:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:58:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 16 22:58:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnNYE-0001Rj-Mc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnNYw-0000Vu-Ma for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnLtw-000304-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnLtu-0002yl-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnLtu-0002yX-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnLwN-0007ME-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p157-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.157]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7BC731727; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:09:08 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 96EC483AF; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:08:37 +1300 (NZDT) Original-To: Aidan Kehoe In-Reply-To: <17314.42778.220813.47226@parhasard.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47898 Archived-At: > > Why do they abandon it? And what do they prefer instead? >=20 > They abandon it because of stagnant development, the design and > implementation clusterfuck that is Mule from the perspective of Euro= pean > language users (search for =F6 not working again!) and minimal consi= deration > for GUI users in this age of 17" screens. Among other reasons.=20 Over the last three years that I've been contributing to Emacs, develop= ment has been pretty active. Without doing market research, any notion that= people are abandoning Emacs can only be anecdotal. Perhaps you're bitt= er that XEmacs does seemed to have slowed down, but please remember this list is for contributing to Emacs development, not to knock it down. Nick