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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix some tooltip related problems
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:57:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878td318od.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h8rr2ygt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:55:14 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> OK. But if we stop supporting GTK at some point, what ends up being
>> its replacement? I doubt we'll be able to support Lucid and Motif
>> forever, given that X is going to be replaced with Wayland.
>
> We should indeed move to supporting Wayland natively; volunteers are
> most welcome to work on that.  The Cairo support was supposed to be
> the first step in that direction, but it has known bugs and needs a
> lot of loving care for us to be able to turn it on by default.
> Working on this requires to have experts on board that we
> unfortunately don't seem to have at this time, and that gap bothers me
> personally quite a lot, because I think it's a serious threat to
> Emacs's future.

I'm unclear as to how we could 'support Wayland natively' without
using some kind of toolkit for menus, scrollbars, etc.

Robert



  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-12 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-08  9:53 Fix some tooltip related problems martin rudalics
2018-01-08 14:41 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-08 18:19   ` martin rudalics
2018-01-08 18:50     ` Drew Adams
2018-01-09  9:42       ` martin rudalics
2018-01-09 15:08         ` Drew Adams
2018-01-10 10:20           ` martin rudalics
2018-01-10 15:55             ` Drew Adams
2018-01-10 19:17               ` Alan Third
2018-01-10 21:02                 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-10 23:04                   ` Alan Third
2018-01-10 23:26                     ` Drew Adams
2018-01-11  3:39                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11  7:03                 ` Yuri Khan
2018-01-11 14:32                   ` Drew Adams
2018-01-11 10:56               ` martin rudalics
2018-01-11 14:42                 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-11 17:06                   ` martin rudalics
2018-01-11 17:19                     ` Robert Pluim
2018-01-11 17:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11 18:20                         ` martin rudalics
2018-01-11 23:33                         ` Daniele Nicolodi
2018-01-12  8:38                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-12  8:40                         ` Robert Pluim
2018-01-12  9:55                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-12 13:57                             ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-01-12 14:15                               ` Philipp Stephani
2018-01-11 19:54                       ` Richard Stallman
2018-01-11 23:26                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-12  8:48                         ` Robert Pluim
2018-01-11 18:09                     ` Drew Adams
2018-01-11 18:54                       ` martin rudalics
2018-01-11 19:50                         ` Drew Adams
2018-01-12  8:47                           ` martin rudalics
2018-01-12 16:43                             ` Drew Adams
2018-01-08 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-08 19:06   ` martin rudalics
2018-01-08 19:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-09  9:42       ` martin rudalics
2018-01-19 18:54 ` martin rudalics

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