From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christophe Poncy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a desktop environment Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 01:04:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4DDD8B19.1090901@canaxis.org> References: <87aaebbndz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <09EEF7C6-A715-412D-ABE7-022681CD2E85@raeburn.org> <868vtufuo0.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306364712 32691 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2011 23:05:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 23:05:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 01:05:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QPN8U-00007F-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:05:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52170 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPN8U-0003Uw-4S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPN8S-0003Tr-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPN8R-0008OJ-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:60306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPN8R-0008Nn-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:05:03 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 217.70.178.134 Original-Received: from mfilter4-d.gandi.net (mfilter4-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.134]) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA58172055 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:05:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at #File managed by puppet, do not edit locally Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]) by mfilter4-d.gandi.net (mfilter4-d.gandi.net [10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id x0uX8GsY4u94 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:04:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Originating-IP: 82.254.237.226 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.10] (lns-bzn-60-82-254-237-226.adsl.proxad.net [82.254.237.226]) (Authenticated sender: cp@canaxis.org) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 55E79172071 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:04:57 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 217.70.183.196 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139712 Archived-At: On 05/25/2011 11:58 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > Would not a lot more people gain from a better Gnome than from a > better Emacs desktop? > > I generally use Funtoo GNU/Linux with OpenBox. There's some Gnome dependencies, but not too much. Not everybody are using Gnome, some Emacs users prefer light desktops. Increasing those dependencies is a bad thing for them. Sorry to be off topic but Steve Yegge talked about the future of Emacs three years ago, I found his post rather brilliant, especially the "Emacs/Firefox integration", I always wondered what Emacs developers are thinking about this: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-live-xemacs.html