From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:18:55 +0100 Message-ID: <47EAE7EF.3000305@gmail.com> References: <873aqia0eh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47E96BAA.7040101@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206577161 27039 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2008 00:19:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:19:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pmr@pajato.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, paul.r.ml@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 01:19:50 2008 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 1JefqN-0002HG-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:19:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jefpl-0006vM-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jefpi-0006vE-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jefph-0006u9-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jefph-0006u4-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jefpd-0002dx-R3; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64161 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jefpb-0006FD-8h; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:19:00 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080326-3, 2008-03-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Jefpb-0006FD-8h. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Jefpb-0006FD-8h 9661ac496b35eb43beb8c6591f5c2257 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:93588 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Do you have any other generalization to suggest? Yes, I was thinking more of the graphical (or maybe hierarchical) aspect. To me tabs are something that can be placed just under frames or subframes. > Another note about tabs: When considering such features is not that also > a good time to consider something like wxwidgets? > > Maybe yes. The screens of today's computers are much bigger, so space > for the text is no longer at a great premium. So there is no pressing > reason not to use toolkit widgets around each window to make it look > nicer. We definitely want to get away from the current limit that window > sizes must be multiples of a "line height". > > Whether wxwindows is the right way to do this, I have no opinion, since > I don't know much about it. Can wxwindows work with Gtk? See Stephen's reply here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01170.html