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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?
Date: 17 Apr 2003 13:21:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ladepm442.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2003.04.17.15.13.26.281001@dzr-web.com

> Stefan - seriously, if I could I would. I would *love* to contribute to
> something like Emacs, and if I was capable I would make the time to do it.

I don't think it takes much special expert skill to contribute.  You can
contribute things like typo-fixes, improve the manual, better organize the
NEWS entries.  And then there are  ways to contribute to actual code without
being an expert programmer either.

> But, and please be patient with my naivety, does that mean that getting
> emacs to hook into the new font rendering abilities of XFree86 is really
> hard? Or is it just that the core developers are too busy working on more
> pressing issues in emacs?

I just don't know of anybody working on it.  I don't think people work on
issues because they are pressing in general, but rather because they find
it important/interesting/entertaining/...
I'm pretty happy with my 6x13 fixed font, so I'm not going to spend
my time on anti-aliasing although I agree it would be nice to have.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-17 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-17 12:44 GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1? D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 13:54 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-17 14:12   ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 15:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 15:13       ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 17:21         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-04-17 17:50           ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 19:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 20:10               ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-18  1:55           ` Miles Bader
     [not found]           ` <mailman.4838.1050631104.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-18  3:02             ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 16:54     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-17 17:19     ` David Kastrup
2003-04-17 17:34       ` Glenn Morris
2003-04-17 17:39       ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 20:32         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-18 16:14     ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-04-24 14:01 ` d2003xx

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