Re: Platform independent graphical display for Emacs

[xenodasein]

Dec 24, 2021, 15:27 by luangruo@yahoo.com:

>> Surely intrusive, event-driven libs like GTK necessitate changes in
>> our code, which are otherwise unnecessary complexity elsewhere, when
>> GTK isn't even used?
>>
>
> Being "event-driven" is hardly why GTK is problematic.  A small file
> named xgselect.c takes care of the GLib event loop with some clever
> code, so we don't have to worry about it anywhere else.
>

I grepped a bit, and there many conditional modifications to frame
related functions through #ifdef USE_GTK.  This doesn't bode well for
a cross-platform frame logic, IMO.  Is this what you referred to as
problematic?