From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Powe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New Emacs with GTK! Date: 22 Mar 2003 13:03:08 -0500 Organization: The Hospice of the Mind Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87el4z9t43.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048358189 10952 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 18:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 22 19:36:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wnqz-0002qJ-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:36:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wnqZ-000327-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:35:59 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-101.newsdawg.com X-Home-Page: http://www.trollope.org X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.8.8/GNU Emacs 21.2.1 [Linux 2.4.5] X-PGP: http://www.trollope.org/pgp.txt User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111314 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7813 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7813 >>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader writes: Miles> kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) writes: >> I'm wondering - I use NTEmacs, presumably using the MFC GUI >> classes, emacs on Linux using Lesstif, and emacs on AIX using >> Motif. >> As a user (not an emacs developer), why should I carer about >> gtk2? Miles> Depends on what's important to you... yep. what's important to me is editing, not my "desktop theme." Miles> I like the GTK emacs simply because it (1) matches the look Miles> of other apps that use GTK (which is, at least in my case, Miles> many), and (2) looks much, much, much, slicker than the Miles> clunky-ass *tif (this of course, depends to some degree on Miles> your choosing a slick-looking GTK theme, though you get Miles> anti-aliased menus and a nicer-looking toolbar regardless Miles> :-). Miles> Some other less personal reasons might include a better Miles> long term viability for GTK; I expect that once the GTK Miles> version hits prime-time, it will get a lot more maintenance Miles> attention than the other versions. actually, i doubt it. i'm sure that there are many who, like me, do the bulk of their editing in -- gasp -- the console. gtk will be worthless to us. mp -- Michael Powe Waterbury, CT USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- "It stands to reason that self-righteous, inflexible, single-minded, authoritarian true believers are politically organized. Open-minded, flexible, complex, ambiguous, anti-authoritarian people would just as soon be left to mind their own fucking business." - R.U. Sirius