Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Visuwesh]

[ஞாயிறு ஆகஸ்ட் 21, 2022] Robert Pluim wrote:

>
>>>>>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:39:34 +0800, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> said:
>
>     Po Lu> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>     >> Why not Lucid?
>
>     Po Lu> I forgot to include that, sorry.  I meant it along with the Motif 
> build,
>     Po Lu> since both work equally well.  Several months ago only the Motif 
> build
>     Po Lu> was usable under XInput 2, but all of those bugs were eliminated 
> between
>     Po Lu> then and now.
>
> There was a time when I was young and naïve, and thought that GTK was
> going to be the answer to Emacsʼ toolkit issues. That has turned out
> to be somewhat untrue [1], so perhaps we should default to Lucid (itʼs
> still pretty ugly, but I donʼt use menus or scrollbars so that doesnʼt
> affect me personally).

One potential with the Lucid backend is that it does not support the
XEmbed protocol IIRC.