Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun 21 Aug 2022 at 02:27PM -05, Rob Browning wrote:

> For what it's worth, I don't personally have any strong, principled
> stand regarding what the default toolkit should be right now (via "apt
> install emacs").  If I recall correctly, I think I may have switched it
> to gtk years back when it looked like that was the upstream preference.
>
> Personally, I haven't installed emacs-gtk much in years.  I switched to
> emacs-lucid nearly exclusively a good while back because I hit the well
> known X forwarding bugs back when that was important to me.  (I also
> turn off menu/tool/scroll bars, so I don't see a lot of the
> toolkit-specific bits.)

So, in your view it would be fine if we didn't use -gtk by default even
though GNOME is Debian's default desktop?

-- 
Sean Whitton