From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SVG widget in GNU Emacs Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:09:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83ilxrc2ys.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bl3kcrpl.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19738"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, atamariya@gmail.com To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 14:15:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mdAVA-0004ty-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:15:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60032 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdAV9-0002h8-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdAPK-0004su-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdAPK-0006Un-EB; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1300 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdAPI-00010j-VW; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:09:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bl3kcrpl.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:15:02 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:277437 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: Emacs Devel > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:15:02 +0800 > > I remember a proprietary version of Emacs (not derived from GNU Emacs) > having the ability to display arbitrary X Toolkit (such as Motif or > Athena widgets) widgets inside frames, along with providing protocol > bindings to X-Windows. > > Would it make sense to extend the existing xwidget feature to support > this? Now that I think of it, I think such a feature would greatly > benefit GNU Emacs. >From my POV, the xwidget feature is incomplete and not maintained very well. As long as this is the case, extending such an incomplete feature is waste of our resources.