Re: emacs for pure Gtk3

[Po Lu]

Yuuki Harano <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:28:46 +0800,
>       Po Lu <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I was maintaining some separate work a while ago, but I moved some of my
>>> work on top of yours some time ago.  It would be nice if we could work
>>> together.  A few noticable differences:
>>> - Support for GTK 2, 3, and the latest GTK 4 snapshots
>>> - Some visual features similar to other GTK applications
>>> - The GTK foreign rendering that I was mentioning earlier
>>>
>>> It currently includes some fairly ugly code, but I'm working on cleaning
>>> it up.
>> 
>> Just a quick preview of some of the various improvements.
>
> What is "GTK foreign rendering"?  I googled but nothing found.

It's a system that allows apps to respect the GTK stylesheet without
using actual GTK widgets.  For instance, I can extract the style context
from a GtkButton, and then use gtk_render_background and
gtk_render_frame to draw a GTK-like button into a Cairo surface.