From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:45:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83iq4hhjww.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4C3CD120.4040905@swipnet.se> <5A91499A-0470-43FD-9F48-560CEAD3424C@mit.edu> <83wrsyr068.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279140592 6218 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2010 20:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chad Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 14 22:49:51 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ8tb-00022G-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:49:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZ8tN-0000Nx-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40298 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZ8tA-0000FX-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ8sm-0005eX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:40902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ8sl-0005eP-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L5K00H00EXLR700@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:47:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.120.144]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L5K007CWF3792V0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:47:32 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:127318 Archived-At: > From: Chad Brown > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:37:09 -0700 > Cc: Emacs development discussions > > > I'm actually not looking at it as a problem to be solved at all, but rather as a blue-sky project to investigate what might be possible with new display toolkits. By way of example, in past discussions about using systems like (but not exactly) khtml, gecko, or gnome's canvas with emacs, it was suggested that emacs had certain requirements that such systems could not meet. My guess is that while this is still true to some degree, there might be new systems that could get along with emacs' needs, and that might offer features not currently available to emacs. I'm not sure I follow: are you looking for toolkits that can be used to replace the Emacs display engine, i.e. those toolkits that support everything Emacs needs and does today?