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Re: Motif support


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Motif support
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:48:35 +0200

> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:15:26 +0100 (CET)
> From: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Why does Emacs use so many GUI libraries? What is their advantage over
> simply creating our own window and drawing our own scroll/menu bar?
> Especially considering GUI libraries like GTK are the poster-children of
> code-horror? (Which I guess is expected since GNOME people like to spend
> their time on this Earth with deeds like slandering RMS. :) )

Various people like how various toolkits look and work, and want Emacs
to look and work similarly.  That's all there is to it.



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