Re: GTK emacs (and access to GTK)

[Nic Ferrier]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> > A related question: what are the views about allowing Emacs to create
> > GTK objects directly? 
> > 
> > I know it is generally frowned upon to export native window system
> > primitives into Emacs but because GTK is a GNU lib maybe there could
> > be an exception. 
> > 
> > William Perry already wrote some code for XEmacs which could maybe
> > serve as a guide?
> > 
> >   http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/gui-xemacs/
> 
> I haven't looked at that code, so I can't say how much effort there is to do 
> this.  It is something for the future, and has some advantages.  For example, 
> Emacs could make its own file dialog where things like tramp works.

I think it would improve usability for newbies because things like
configuration buffers could be made to appear (by preference) as GTK
dialogs.

As you say: things like tramp and even search and replace, could have
GTK facades.

Of course, no one here would use them. But I know a lot of programmers
who are just too scared to learn emacs, if they could fool themselves
into thinking it was just an editor they might take the plunge.

/8->

I'd be interested in helping hacking on this if someone else led the
effort.


Nic