From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we go GTK-only? Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:35:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <24db2975-17ca-ad01-20c8-df12071fa89a@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477626467 12943 195.159.176.226 (28 Oct 2016 03:47:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 03:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 05:47:44 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bzy8s-0002o7-17 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 05:47:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzy8u-0001Rh-JB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzx1M-000841-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzx1M-00010t-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzx1D-0000uf-0U; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bzx1C-0006UC-AF; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:35:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <24db2975-17ca-ad01-20c8-df12071fa89a@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:54:39 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208907 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.