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Re: --with-gtk as default?
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: --with-gtk as default? |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:40:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Would it
>> not be better to make --with-gtk the default immediately _after_ the release
>> so
>> it gets a thorough testing first?
>
> That's a good plan.
>
> The risk is that there are older (or incomplete) versions of GTK out
> there which don't work well with Emacs, so making --with-gtk the
> default would make it harder to get a working Emacs on such systems.
>
> Personally, I had a lot of problems trying to collect a working set
> of GTK libraries when I tried to update my Redhat 9.0 to be able to
> build --with-gtk. I don't recall whether it succeeded or I gave up
> on it, but I haven't tried to build --with-gtk since, and probably
> wont.
Sigh. So the default Emacs installations for decades to come are
going to show off the utterly archaic Athena look, except on
proprietary platforms like Windows and MacosX. Does Athena even allow
Unicode characters in menus (never mind about antialiasing them) by
now?
Consider me disappointed.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: --with-gtk as default?, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, David Kastrup, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Jan Djärv, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Nick Roberts, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, David Kastrup, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, David Kastrup, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Romain Francoise, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Andreas Schwab, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, David Kastrup, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Andreas Schwab, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, David Kastrup, 2007/02/28
Re: --with-gtk as default?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/28
Re: --with-gtk as default?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/28
Re: --with-gtk as default?, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/28