Re: emacs for pure Gtk3

[Alan Third]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:34:17PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:42:53 +0900 (JST)
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > From: Yuuki Harano <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Since it needs --without-x to build pgtk emacs, these files are not 
> > compiled:
> > - xfns.c
> > - xgselect.c
> > - xmenu.c
> > - xrdb.c
> > - xselect.c
> > - xsmfns.c
> > - xterm.c
> > 
> > Instead, works in those files are done in these files in pure gtk way:
> > - pgtkfns.c
> > - pgtkim.c
> > - pgtkmenu.c
> > - pgtkselect.c
> > - pgtkterm.c
> 
> That's a lot of functionality to rewrite from scratch.

A pure GTK port is more akin to the NS port running on GNUstep. There
should be no X code at all, but it still works on X.

The current GTK support is really just X code with some GTK sprinkled
over the top. It’s impossible to remove the X code without rewriting
everything.
-- 
Alan Third