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Re: Fix some tooltip related problems


From: Daniele Nicolodi
Subject: Re: Fix some tooltip related problems
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:33:38 -0700
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On 1/11/18 10:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:19:00 +0100
>>
>> How much of an outcry would there be if I proposed removing Lucid and
>> Motif support completely for Emacs 27, as a first step to getting rid
>> of the unholy mix of X and GTK we're currently doing?
> 
> A lot.  I'm firmly against removing toolkits to appease GTK.  I think
> GTK is an unholy mess, which can some day simply stop being supported,
> and we definitely shouldn't lose useful features in its favor.

I may have misunderstood, but isn't it strange to being worried about
GTK stopping being supported when comparing it to Motif?  I think it is
much likely that X11 will stop being supported before GTK will have this
fate.

Cheers,
Dan




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