From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: merging of the xwidget branch to master Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:57:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83twz4gvbo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tmaj6r9.fsf@bernoul.li> <83oapdiqhh.fsf@gnu.org> <877fw0snyz.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422892679 26111 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2015 15:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 16:57:58 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YIJNu-0000od-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:57:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55240 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIJNt-0001lP-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIJNn-0001hc-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIJNi-0005IE-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:41427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIJNi-0005Hg-Gh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJ500H00I1HKJ00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:49:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJ500D4ZIML9Y60@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:49:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <877fw0snyz.fsf@bernoul.li> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182262 Archived-At: > From: Jonas Bernoulli > Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:43:16 +0100 > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> What window system should Emacs use? x11 > >> What toolkit should Emacs use? GTK3 > >> ... > >> Does Emacs support Xwidgets? no > >> Does xwidgets support webkit(requires gtk3)? no > >> Does xwidgets support gobject introspection? no > > > > As another comment on the configure script in this area, I would > > suggest a prominent error message if xwidgets were requested, but the > > configure script decided not to turn on this option. Currently, it > > does that silently (except for the above indication, which can easily > > get lost among the others), which IMO is bad UI. If the user asked > > for xwidgets, but we cannot give it, we should complain loudly. > > I had similar issues with other options, e.g. `--with-imagemagick' > did not work because the installed version is to old (Debian lagging > behind), but I also got no warning except for the "no" which quickly > scrolled by. Showing "no" is already better than what we have with xwidgets. But I agree that an explicit error is even better.