Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 18:53:45 +0100
>> 
>> I opposed to the rhetorics of Po who is blaming it on Gtk bugs and devs having
>> their own ideas on input, or what he wrote I don't remember, instead of simply
>> saying that Gtk does not fit Emacs needs. I have tried to say why Gtk and Emacs
>> does not fit well, instead of leaving the original poster wondering how come
>> that Gtk was so rough around the edges after more than 20 years of development,
>> as Po has painted it.
>
> Well, some of the problems _are_ due to the GTK developers' decisions
> about what a GUI program should or should not have.  An example is the
> lack of support for dynamic menus.

At least it seems like dynamic menus is something they work on:

> You can of course build dynamic menus out of the GMenu and GMenuModel API. The things become slightly more complex if you have extension points, like plugins, that add and remove menus and menu items depending on whether they have been enabled or disabled at run time. We lack a decent API for that.

> AFAIR, @hergertme had some wrapper API for GNOME Builder; I think we could expand the API in GIO to have a better story for extensible menus.

From: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gtk4-and-dynamical-menus/8529/3