Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, alan@idiocy.org,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>  dgutov@yandex.ru, yandros@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:02:10 +0100
> 
>  > But my question actually meant to say why the fact that Motif can wrap
>  > the menu is important enough to keep its support,
> 
> Because on GNU/Linux this provides a means for testing resizing of the
> inner frame under the most heavy environmental conditions: It has to
> deal with a wrapping menu, tool and tab bar all in one, something I can
> test only on Windows otherwise.

If no configuration on GNU/Linux supports wrapping of the menu, then
this wrapping doesn't need to be tested on GNU/Linux, and is not an
argument for keeping the Motif support.

>  > if no one uses it?
> 
> IIUC no one uses --with-x-toolkit=no or --without-x builds either, so
> this argument doesn't count.  But why even care about removing things
> that are not broken as long as
> 
> - there exist builds that are severely broken in many regards like our
>    default GNU/Linux build,
> 
> - there exist largely untested builds like pgtk whose merging-in would
>    in no way interfere with any of the toolkits whose support people
>    despise,
> 
> - removing special Motif code might break other parts as well (we would
>    have to continue to work with its WM hints, for example)?

Good questions.