Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el)

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (William M. Perry) writes:
> Well, all of this abstraction work has already been done, and fairly
> well.  Either GTK or Qt gives you exactly this level of abstraction, and
> we would not have to rewrite it and maintain it ourselves.
> 
> The GTK API is not the greatest in the world, but it is much cleaner than
> trying to emulate X on windows and mac and...

Isn't GDK the `X abstraction layer' that GTK uses?

Perhaps it would be possible to use that without always using GTK...

-Miles
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