From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can we go GTK-only?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:35:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1bzx1C-0006UC-AF@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24db2975-17ca-ad01-20c8-df12071fa89a@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:54:39 -0700)
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> Do we really need all the legacy infrastructure in xterm? Do many people
> really build Emacs as a Motif application? The X window subsystem would
> be made much simpler if we made it GTK3-only.
Some of those alternatives can be deleted, but we shouldn't rush to
delete them all just because that would simplify things.
How about writing GTK support separate from the X support?
That would achieve the same goal. Maybe someday we would delete the
other platforms.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-27 19:54 Can we go GTK-only? Daniel Colascione
2016-10-27 20:05 ` Frank Haun
2016-10-27 20:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-27 21:08 ` Frank Haun
2016-10-27 20:32 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-27 23:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-28 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 2:35 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-10-28 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 7:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-28 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 10:48 ` Frank Haun
2016-10-28 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-30 14:43 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-30 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-30 22:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-30 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-31 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 0:00 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-10-31 8:24 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-31 16:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 8:22 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-10-31 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:57 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-31 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-31 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 17:54 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-10-31 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 18:22 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-10-31 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 21:04 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 16:28 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-01 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 16:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 19:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 19:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-01 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 16:55 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-01 17:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 16:41 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:22 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:56 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 19:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 16:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 17:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-01 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 19:42 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 19:20 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-01 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-01 20:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-01 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 2:26 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-02 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 15:55 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-02 5:00 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-11-02 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 3:43 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-11-03 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-02 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-02 19:25 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-11-02 19:25 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-11-02 20:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-03 1:25 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-02 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 3:29 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-03 18:07 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-03 22:07 ` John Wiegley
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