Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   casouri@gmail.com,  alan@idiocy.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   contovob@tcd.ie,  dgutov@yandex.ru,  yandros@gmail.com,  larsi@gnus.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:41:36 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:42:36 -0500, Stefan Monnier 
> >>>>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:
> 
>     >>> if no one uses it?
>     >> IIUC no one uses --with-x-toolkit=no
> 
>     Stefan> I don't know if noone does, but I do think it's one of the 
> targets we
>     Stefan> could throw out.  I suspect it would simplify more of the code 
> than
>     Stefan> removign Motif, since the no-toolkit is somewhat atypical (has 
> special
>     Stefan> events and code for scrollbars, and treats menus differently than 
> the
>     Stefan> rest of the code, AFAIK).
> 
> Itʼs also more likely to break in future as the world moves to
> Wayland, and direct X11 access becomes unsupported.

OTOH, if no other toolkit exists on a system, or if no other toolkit
builds with Emacs, the no-toolkit is the only way to have a GUI Emacs.
So maybe it is worth preserving, especially as the amount of
maintenance it requires is strictly zero.

> I donʼt know, but a no-gui emacs build is definitely worth preserving.

Right.