From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: --with-gtk as default?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:27:55 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17892.45163.858842.328409@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85lkijgsp9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
> Why? If X11 is not available, we fall back to without-X. Would you
> claim that without-X is for that reason the best choice for the
> default? Because it builds on more platforms?
That's an absurd analogy.
> I'd say that trying for GTK+ as default and Xaw as fallback is
> perfectly reasonable for an X11 build. Nowadays Xaw widgets are not
> even as likely to be available as developer libraries as GTK+ is.
>
> What builds everywhere for X11 is actually the "native" Lucid widget
> version, not Xaw. And yet Xaw is the default, _when_ available.
I know very little about the availability of widget sets but given that the
last five pretests haven't built with GTK as default and the momentum from them
appears to have diminished, it would seem to be too late to make this decision.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 19:43 --with-gtk as default? David Kastrup
2007-02-27 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 21:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 21:27 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-27 22:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 22:27 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-02-27 22:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 22:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 22:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 6:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 7:32 ` Jan Djärv
2007-02-28 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 22:15 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-01 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-01 7:22 ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-01 8:44 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-02 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 7:40 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-03-02 9:15 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-02 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-02 23:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-03 1:43 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-04 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-28 7:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 8:22 ` Jan Djärv
2007-02-28 8:44 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-28 8:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 11:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-28 11:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 12:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-28 12:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 13:00 ` Romain Francoise
2007-03-01 10:06 ` Nick Roberts
2007-03-01 11:45 ` Christian Faulhammer
2007-02-28 13:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-28 13:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 13:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-28 13:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-28 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-01 9:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-01 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-02 9:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-02 9:35 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-02 9:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-02 10:57 ` Jan Djärv
2007-02-28 17:31 ` Ralf Angeli
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