Re: Platform independent graphical display for Emacs

[xenodasein]

Dec 24, 2021, 15:08 by luangruo@yahoo.com:

> xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> writes:
>
>> GTK. It looked intrusive to me, while making things easier on Wayland
>> would it also make things harder on other places? Especially if it is
>> not available.
>>
>
> We don't use GTK where it's not available, and use of GTK will always
> stay optional, so I don't understand what you're trying to say.
>
Optional?  What I understood from you that it would be the only
connection between Emacs and Wayland in the new system, to avoid
dealing with the Wayland directly.

> Anyway, using GTK for Wayland support doesn't affect what we do
> elsewhere.
>
Surely intrusive, event-driven libs like GTK necessitate changes in our
code, which are otherwise unnecessary complexity elsewhere, when
GTK isn't even used?