From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --with-gtk as default? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:31:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87y7mifat6.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> References: <85wt23idxi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <857iu267fm.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 1172683951 28251 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2007 17:32:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 28 18:32:13 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 1HMSey-00077u-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:32:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMSez-000779-Bf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMSen-00074x-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:32:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMSel-00072c-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:32:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMSel-00072W-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:31:59 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMSei-0004pD-Aq; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.165.69.81] (helo=neutrino.caeruleus.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML31I-1HMSeb0hVV-0000ET; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:31:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <857iu267fm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed\, 28 Feb 2007 08\:57\:17 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:abf9ffac21f8345504ac40c53d3b40ba X-Provags-ID2: V01U2FsdGVkX19QJRNsFzgDUIzb3mly5E+InHT9SJ/u7PNW1Fv q8mSX7rFr7MEKnnQg057CICcp1NT0AibyWo+/2u2+mkjBLoaik XSkfAvj27pMaG1NiKmYvQ== X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:67047 Archived-At: * David Kastrup (2007-02-28) writes: > 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. And opening menus works better with GTK+ than with Athena. It often happened to me that a menu did not open upon clicking on it or it was closed again immediately. (Something like that. It has been a long time since I used an Emacs compiled with Athena widgets.) -- Ralf