Re: Compiling Emacs with GTK

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> You'll probably scream out in horror, but I use
>> --with-gtk --without-toolkit-scroll-bars
>> for my version of Emacs, with a few X resources to make the default
>> scroll bars somewhat broader and nicer in color.
>
> Why Gtk?

Because the menus are _much_ better, antialiased and Unicode-capable.
The toolbar is nicer to demo as well (I have it off by default).

> With Athena, you'd get a nicer looking Xaw3d scrollbar (unless your
> Xaw3d was compiled with the evil SCROLLBAR_ARROWS compilation option
> which castrates it like a Motif scrollbar).

Athena does not mix with Gtk, and Athena menus and dialogs suck
royally.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum