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Re: Can we go GTK-only?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Can we go GTK-only? |
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Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:35:42 -0400 |
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> Do we really need all the legacy infrastructure in xterm? Do many people
> really build Emacs as a Motif application? The X window subsystem would
> be made much simpler if we made it GTK3-only.
Some of those alternatives can be deleted, but we shouldn't rush to
delete them all just because that would simplify things.
How about writing GTK support separate from the X support?
That would achieve the same goal. Maybe someday we would delete the
other platforms.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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