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Re: Fix some tooltip related problems


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: Fix some tooltip related problems
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:40:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

OK. But if we stop supporting GTK at some point, what ends up being
its replacement? I doubt we'll be able to support Lucid and Motif
forever, given that X is going to be replaced with Wayland.

Robert



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