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: merging of the xwidget branch to master Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:46:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83oapdiqhh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tmaj6r9.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422805639 799 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2015 15:47:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 15:47:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 01 16:47:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YHwk1-0003pd-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:47:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHwk0-0005SH-Pk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:47:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHwjw-0005PY-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:47:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHwjs-0002BT-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:33883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHwjs-0002Ad-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJ300K00NLXMI00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:47:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJ300KSPNUID950@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:47:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <871tmaj6r9.fsf@bernoul.li> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:182177 Archived-At: > From: Jonas Bernoulli > Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:55:22 +0100 > Cc: Emacs developers > > joakim@verona.se writes: > > > ./configure --with-xwidgets --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 > > What additinal packages do I have to install? I am on Debian and the > only package I have installed specifically for this is libwebkitgtk-dev. > After doing that I still get: > > What window system should Emacs use? x11 > What toolkit should Emacs use? GTK3 > ... > Does Emacs support Xwidgets? no > Does xwidgets support webkit(requires gtk3)? no > Does xwidgets support gobject introspection? no As another comment on the configure script in this area, I would suggest a prominent error message if xwidgets were requested, but the configure script decided not to turn on this option. Currently, it does that silently (except for the above indication, which can easily get lost among the others), which IMO is bad UI. If the user asked for xwidgets, but we cannot give it, we should complain loudly.