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Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits? |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:47:05 +0200 |
> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, alan@idiocy.org,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> dgutov@yandex.ru, yandros@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:02:10 +0100
>
> > But my question actually meant to say why the fact that Motif can wrap
> > the menu is important enough to keep its support,
>
> Because on GNU/Linux this provides a means for testing resizing of the
> inner frame under the most heavy environmental conditions: It has to
> deal with a wrapping menu, tool and tab bar all in one, something I can
> test only on Windows otherwise.
If no configuration on GNU/Linux supports wrapping of the menu, then
this wrapping doesn't need to be tested on GNU/Linux, and is not an
argument for keeping the Motif support.
> > if no one uses it?
>
> IIUC no one uses --with-x-toolkit=no or --without-x builds either, so
> this argument doesn't count. But why even care about removing things
> that are not broken as long as
>
> - there exist builds that are severely broken in many regards like our
> default GNU/Linux build,
>
> - there exist largely untested builds like pgtk whose merging-in would
> in no way interfere with any of the toolkits whose support people
> despise,
>
> - removing special Motif code might break other parts as well (we would
> have to continue to work with its WM hints, for example)?
Good questions.
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, (continued)
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/02/12
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/12
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/12
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/12
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/12
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Colin Baxter, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Jean Louis, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/14
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/02/14
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/14
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/14
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Andy Moreton, 2021/02/14