From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --with-gtk as default? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:57:17 +0100 Message-ID: <857iu267fm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85wt23idxi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172649460 7537 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2007 07:57:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:57:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 28 08:57:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMJgr-0000Sl-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:57:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMJgr-00083f-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:57:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMJgh-000812-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMJgf-0007z6-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMJgf-0007yw-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HMJge-0002H1-Cs; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACBA1F5202; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:57:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3DCEF85D; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:57:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-043-215.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.43.215]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A1910699D; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:57:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0B45D1D17415; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:57:18 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 28 Feb 2007 02\:27\:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:67001 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Given that GNOME is considered part of the GNU project, should not be > --with-gtk be the default for compiling Emacs rather than Athena > widgets, at least where GTK+ is available? > > In principle maybe, but it isn't working well enough yet. Interesting. In my experience, it is working quite better than the Athena widgets. Which is one of the reasons I have been using the Gtk+ port for years now. For example, it has no problems using Unicode in the menus. Could you provide examples about things that work worse than with Athena widgets? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum