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Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits? |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:51:25 +0200 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> casouri@gmail.com, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> contovob@tcd.ie, dgutov@yandex.ru, yandros@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:41:36 +0100
>
> >>>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:42:36 -0500, Stefan Monnier
> >>>>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:
>
> >>> if no one uses it?
> >> IIUC no one uses --with-x-toolkit=no
>
> Stefan> I don't know if noone does, but I do think it's one of the
> targets we
> Stefan> could throw out. I suspect it would simplify more of the code
> than
> Stefan> removign Motif, since the no-toolkit is somewhat atypical (has
> special
> Stefan> events and code for scrollbars, and treats menus differently than
> the
> Stefan> rest of the code, AFAIK).
>
> Itʼs also more likely to break in future as the world moves to
> Wayland, and direct X11 access becomes unsupported.
OTOH, if no other toolkit exists on a system, or if no other toolkit
builds with Emacs, the no-toolkit is the only way to have a GUI Emacs.
So maybe it is worth preserving, especially as the amount of
maintenance it requires is strictly zero.
> I donʼt know, but a no-gui emacs build is definitely worth preserving.
Right.
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, (continued)
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Colin Baxter, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Jean Louis, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, martin rudalics, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Colin Baxter, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/13
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?, Robert Pluim, 2021/02/14
- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?,
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