From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --with-gtk as default? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:22:38 +0100 Message-ID: <45E53BCE.4090300@swipnet.se> References: <85wt23idxi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <857iu267fm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172651032 12376 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2007 08:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 28 09:23:45 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 1HMK6C-0002Zj-AF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:23:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMK6C-0001x6-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMK5y-0001uF-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:23:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMK5w-0001qp-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:23:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMK5w-0001qi-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:23:28 -0500 Original-Received: from av11-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.184]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMK5r-0006ow-5A; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:23:23 -0500 Original-Received: by av11-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 027AC37FA7; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:23:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av11-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F4637FAB; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:23:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D4E37E48; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:23:21 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) In-Reply-To: <857iu267fm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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:67002 Archived-At: David Kastrup skrev: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Given that GNOME is considered part of the GNU project, should not be >> --with-gtk be the default for compiling Emacs rather than Athena >> widgets, at least where GTK+ is available? >> >> In principle maybe, but it isn't working well enough yet. > > Interesting. In my experience, it is working quite better than the > Athena widgets. Which is one of the reasons I have been using the > Gtk+ port for years now. For example, it has no problems using > Unicode in the menus. > > Could you provide examples about things that work worse than with > Athena widgets? > The only thing I can think of is the display close bug that Gtk+ has. Are there other problems that keeps us from having --with-gtk as the default? Jan D.