From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: long-standing GTK bug Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:53:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83zhbcg6s4.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1wng2ki.fsf@linaro.org> <83o8rrenn1.fsf@gnu.org> <87blnr6uck.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87wo5kumkn.fsf_-_@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <86ftc5hc8j.fsf@gmail.com> <87d079io10.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87ftbyokll.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <83a71c71id.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="17605"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: asjo@koldfront.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 10 02:54:17 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jip0T-0004Uk-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:54:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38056 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jip0S-0005p9-9a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jiozw-0005KK-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jiozv-0006z8-71; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jiozu-0005FD-4f; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:53:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83a71c71id.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:32:58 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252066 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. ]]] > > Ideally the GTK developers would fix this. Apparently a long time has > > gone by and they have not done so. I suppose there is a reason why. > > Does anyone know what it is? > AFAIU, they concluded that Emacs doesn't use GTK as a well-behaving > GTK application should, and so they decided not to fix this problem. Did they say how a well-behaved program would do this job? If there a way Emacs could do that? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)