From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --with-gtk as default? Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:06:57 +1300 Message-ID: <17894.42433.835728.457509@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <85wt23idxi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <857iu267fm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <45E53BCE.4090300@swipnet.se> <17893.16643.270487.229535@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85zm6ymrx4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85mz2ympp2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87tzx6zbb9.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172743932 28486 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 10:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Romain Francoise Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 11:12:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMiGW-0004bO-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:12:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMiGX-0006kP-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMiBl-00035u-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMiBi-000352-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMiBi-00034t-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMiBh-000090-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (35.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.35]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B703D9E6D; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:06:59 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0675E4F718; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:06:58 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <87tzx6zbb9.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.94.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67119 Archived-At: > > Such a waste. It's frustrating to advertise an editor that > > visually appears to be stuck in the last millennium. > > I agree! > > FWIW, in Debian we offer both versions of Emacs 22 (X and GTK) and > out of 616 users, 373 have the GTK version installed, vs. 258 for > the vanilla X version[1][2]. And this despite the fact that the > default version is the X version: the GTK build must be requested > explicitly. That says to me that Debian should make the GTK version the standard installation. It's a different choice to ours though, because it's for one platform only. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob