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Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?
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Ulrich Mueller |
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Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits? |
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:20:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, chad wrote:
>> Actually, looking through configure, we also have motif and athena and
>> 'none', so itʼs 6, not 3.
> I started a reply mentioning motif and athena/Xaw3d for hysterical
> reasons, but then peeked ahead and saw that they had already been
> mentioned.
> In more pragmatic terms, I would guess that it's entirely possible to
> excise motif/lesstif, athena, and Xaw3d from main without anyone
> noticing.
Your guess would be wrong.
> Whether this is worth the effort in a world leaning ever so slowly
> towards Cairo and pgtk is a little hard to tell, but a quick grep
> through src suggests that it would at least clear up a bunch of #ifdef
> spaghetti.
> Would the maintainers be interested in a branch that tried this? Would
> it be better to wait for pgtk to settle first? Is there a big use-case
> for those toolkits of which I'm unaware?
Has the GTK+ "closing displays" bug [1,2] been fixed? If not, I think
it's a showstopper for removal of the old toolkits. I use Emacs with
Athena here because of that bug.
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/221
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2315
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