Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Po Lu]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> There was a time when I was young and naïve, and thought that GTK was
> going to be the answer to Emacsʼ toolkit issues.

+1.

> 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). If Someone™
> contributes a Qt port, that might do as well (there was a port of
> XEmacs to Qt several decades ago, so it definitely feasible).

I suggest anyone who wants to implement a port to Qt look at the Haiku
port.  I think both toolkits are designed similarly from a high-level
perspective, and both require C++ for the GUI code.