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Subject: Re: Closing displays GTK+ bug (was: "Why is emacs so square?")
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> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:26:24 +0200
> 
> This is the state fo affairs for how long now? More than 10 years?
> My guess would be that the GTK+ bug will never be fixed.

My guess is the same.

> I just wonder if it wouldn't be consequent to make multi-tty features
> and GTK+ mutually exclude each other. Alternatively, move to Qt instead
> of GTK+ (though I can see the NIH argument there).

I doubt people will accept the former.  As for the latter: volunteers
are welcome, of course, but Qt is a C++ toolkit, which means another
non-trivial obstacle.