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Re: Platform independent graphical display for Emacs


From: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
Subject: Re: Platform independent graphical display for Emacs
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:24:22 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Fri, Dec 24 2021, Po Lu wrote:

> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>> So I can hardly imagine a typical Emacs user that could make a big
>> issue about the menus or dialogs being a bit different from what his
>> platform's standard ones are, as long as the replacement is not ugly
>> ("ugly" in the sense the motif menu is ugly compared to Lucid and
>> GTK.)
>
> The Lucid menu was mostly designed after the Motif menu.  They also look
> mostly identical.  Anyway, the reason support for those toolkits was
> added is that people care for them, and that's also why nobody uses the
> no-toolkit build anymore.

i use it.  and have been using it for the last 20 years.  i want an
emacs with graphical capabilities but i don't use any toolkit element
ever.

i wish you'd be as nice with the non-toolikit option as you've been with
the motif one, if possible.

thanks,
jao
-- 
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treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. -Alfred Whitehead




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