Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

Dear Richard,

I like the way toolbars are implemented in Gimp.  One can remove the toolbar 
because
it is set up in another frame.  Similar to the speedbar.  If emacs could do the 
same,
the toolbar can be disabled and you would not have the problem of vertical 
shifting.

Alternatively, one could make the toolbar functionality appear as an additional 
MenuItem
that you could detach.  By keeping two screens - one side emacs, the other with 
the detached
toolbar, a mouse clicking tool, and a virtual keyboard - one can mark quite 
well.

The problem with all this is whether the trend is to get rid of toolbars 
altogether.  That's
the  real problem.  If a way can be found that does not require the toolbar to 
take space
on the frame, it could make people who do not want it happy.  The others can 
have the freedom
to develop the toolbar or do work for others with it.  I would be willing to 
include it in
my Behistun Package, although have not planned on it.  Then send they code for 
inclusion
in emacs.  But first one has to see how the emacs code on toolbars is applied 
differently
by the maintaners as they adapt to the many people that insist on not having 
the toolbar
visible.

Have not coded in GTK for a long time.

Regards
Christopher

> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 6:41 AM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
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> Would you like to implement more convenient customization of the
> toolbar?
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