Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 12. Jan. 2018 um 14:58 Uhr:

> 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.
>

We would support Wayland by using GTK+ correctly. GTK+ already supports
Wayland; we just need to get rid of the weird GTK+/X hybrid, and write a
proper GTK+-only "terminal".