From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Why is emacs so square?" Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 04:55:41 +0000 Message-ID: References: <863691n4xl.wl-me@enzu.ru> <87imhw431x.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="127621"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Richard Stallman , Ahmed Khanzada , "joseph.h.garvin@gmail.com" , "stefan@marxist.se" , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , "eliz@gnu.org" , "drew.adams@oracle.com" To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 06:56:28 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 1jQ20J-000X6c-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 06:56:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37414 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ20I-0005Ca-NR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:56:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ1zg-0004fb-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ1zf-00035c-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40130.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.130]:39985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ1ze-0002ty-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:55:46 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587272143; bh=hVTgP4xYr5GuQOv2szXH9z4trTuJS3NCVNubEKcFzKA=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=D0mFnykuMLuftuYf7Ysk4I8Cx2b1ogkaBtGNKnD4IEdYcgZhv81Sq5GJuyWAj4/QI CQRtCDYst1XELUjttkCV11HgyCVHS5D5GScka/vivk6ONlUYA20tUgct6JZ2Fy7BzU lkBYH7r+0z4/HR6EDkxylt04Cj2N3g+YFtuZFFbo= In-Reply-To: <87imhw431x.fsf@yahoo.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.130; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40130.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.70.40.130 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:247269 Archived-At: > > I'm working on something that uses GTK foreign rendering to draw button > and input field backgrounds as face boxes; I should be able to get it > in a usable state soon (right now it only works on top of another set of > patches I'm working on that make Emacs a pure GTK app). Looks good. These are the changes Emacs needs, so it has a nicer first impression for users who come from mainstream tools to give it a try. Emacs shouldn't look old fashioned out of the box. It would be great if it could use GTK widgets on all major GUI platforms, instead of text buttons and stuff.