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Re: The xwidget branch origin story


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: The xwidget branch origin story
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:23:09 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

>>>>> joakim  <address@hidden> writes:

> Another thing that gets asked a lot is the xwidget name. I just combined 'x'
> meaning any, and widget, thus xwidget. I needed a prefix in the code. In
> retrospect the name wasn't very descriptive, because people believe that the
> branch is only meant for X windows, which it isn't, even if I only have
> tested it there.

Thanks for the background history, Joakim! And yes, until I read this, I had
thought it was only for X11 as well. :)

John



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