From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a desktop environment Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:25:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87vcwv15qw.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <87aaebbndz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <09EEF7C6-A715-412D-ABE7-022681CD2E85@raeburn.org> <868vtufuo0.fsf@gmail.com> <19933.59636.382811.985972@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <878vtsap3z.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hb8fznwi.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306578488 6730 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2011 10:28:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 10:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Ken Raeburn , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Ulrich Mueller , Evans Winner To: Nix Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 28 12:28:03 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QQGkU-0008PR-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 12:28:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQGkT-0003mN-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 06:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQGkQ-0003mD-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 06:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQGkM-0000Q5-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 06:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp209.alice.it ([82.57.200.105]:54377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQGkM-0000Pn-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 06:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ambire.localdomain (95.244.64.68) by smtp209.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4D498EF30A0836FA; Sat, 28 May 2011 12:27:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QQGiF-00036t-4J; Sat, 28 May 2011 12:25:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87hb8fznwi.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (nix@esperi.org.uk's message of "Sat, 28 May 2011 01:09:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 82.57.200.105 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:139825 Archived-At: () Nix () Sat, 28 May 2011 01:09:33 +0100 These days (Xlib 1.4.x+), everything goes through XCB, and a huge number of bugs have simply vanished as a result. I strongly suspect that this is one of them. So i guess it would behoove Emacs to move to XCB as well?