From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Touchscreen support Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:19:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87czlxkntg.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87czlxkntg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87mtkziwhi.fsf@yahoo.com> <87wnk3h0hn.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o85fgx4x.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735mqh5tp.fsf@yahoo.com> <875yrj3m84.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ilviy3pv.fsf@yahoo.com> <87tuf1s16t.fsf@yahoo.com> <875yrglyid.fsf@yahoo.com> <87sfug557u.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34332"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 28 05:22:57 2021 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 1n240m-0008g5-N6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:22:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57998 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n240k-0000Az-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n23xp-0003vs-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:19:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=53446 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n23xo-00027L-SM; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:19:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=Gi+5eZqy3Tv3lVz9K0Ielsqr4H0GexoPhMuG8iJSKxY=; b=lrLL+UL26l9g ZoeRojou5Z3WMeg3Xbs0GjysMnlFokyDDM4p2WXkJ61vSy6sOTHBwtjuae6Esr6iWpeZMTXGS52Z5 LybmB7p8yt7F+U/xh8jwSp5Pw3CvPVbj78r5m3ySIc5KiitIIs9aVczdIaigv+k45yfd9eKSc7rGj q1yonFPamiatHGw6NEeixR6uVW6NovDFS34tcdLwGZoTWGb+gB7nUS1rRUjYCoNefEYjxliVGZEFz i7cuXoCFDSsYj1EOOspsg0bRAxwovSYm7szfiULUCXSWzNOH6TDqETYxmIOPbVif9j3GMJhQLgjw+ nwBACeFT52aiBcZH9i9TcQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n23xp-00077J-35; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:19:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 01:05:06 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283472 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. ]]] > > Anyway, if you're right about their plans, it means that sticking with > > GTK 3 is a short-term solution but not a permanent solution. > Such is life: Emacs outlives pretty much all the systems on which it > builds, which is why it comes with support for various toolkits: each > one of them was "the toolkit to support" at a given time, and then it > became outdated so Emacs had to add support for another one. > Same thing for font libraries, etc... I think you're right. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)