From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1? Date: 17 Apr 2003 13:21:49 -0400 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5ladepm442.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050601064 9454 80.91.224.249 (17 Apr 2003 17:37:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:37:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 17 19:37:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196DDo-0001xz-00 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:30:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196DDT-0000QC-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:30:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 17 Apr 2003 13:21:49 -0400, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112061 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8561 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8561 > Stefan - seriously, if I could I would. I would *love* to contribute to > something like Emacs, and if I was capable I would make the time to do it. I don't think it takes much special expert skill to contribute. You can contribute things like typo-fixes, improve the manual, better organize the NEWS entries. And then there are ways to contribute to actual code without being an expert programmer either. > But, and please be patient with my naivety, does that mean that getting > emacs to hook into the new font rendering abilities of XFree86 is really > hard? Or is it just that the core developers are too busy working on more > pressing issues in emacs? I just don't know of anybody working on it. I don't think people work on issues because they are pressing in general, but rather because they find it important/interesting/entertaining/... I'm pretty happy with my 6x13 fixed font, so I'm not going to spend my time on anti-aliasing although I agree it would be nice to have. Stefan