From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we go GTK-only? Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20161027191502.1050b201@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <24db2975-17ca-ad01-20c8-df12071fa89a@dancol.org> <80a328fa-0a6f-820c-c2ce-b5e717a90f0d@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477610132 19112 195.159.176.226 (27 Oct 2016 23:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , Emacs developers To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 01:15:28 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bzttM-00049K-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:15:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzttO-0005rl-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzttD-0005qV-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bztt4-0005KT-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:54874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bztt4-0005Hu-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFA126D; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160EF2DE021; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <80a328fa-0a6f-820c-c2ce-b5e717a90f0d@cs.ucla.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208904 Archived-At: On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:32:14 -0700 Paul Eggert wrote: > Alternatively, how about if we change the GTK port to be more like > the NS port? That is, we leave xterm.o, xfns.c, xselect.c etc. > alone (except for removing the GTK-related parts), and have new > source files gtkterm.c, gtkfns.c, gtkselect.c etc. as needed to > support GTK. The GTK port would no longer define HAVE_X_WINDOWS. > That way, the no-toolkit, Motif, and Athena configurations would > still work, without getting in the way of GTK. This seems like a good idea. Emacs already has multiple front ends. Having a distinct GTK front end seems like a good, clean sort of segregation. The legacy code can be left in and alone for now for the benefit of those who use it. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com