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bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:14:31 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Package: emacs
Version: 25.2
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to suggest removing support for the Motif toolkit.
Motivation:
Supporting more toolkits (gtk2, gtk3, lucid, motif, none) makes it
harder to develop relevant low-level features.
The Motif toolkit build of Emacs seems to be very little used:
- Fedora packages just a Gtk version
- Debian packages Gtk and Lucid
- Only ~20 mentions of "motif" on bug-gnu-emacs, ever. Most are just
comparison testing
(I see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs mentions it, but my
suspicion is that this is just an attempt at completeness when listing
alternatives to Gtk. Since it's listed first, I wonder if this has
caused more people to use it than otherwise would. All just speculation
on my part.)
(The "none" toolkit is also never used in practice, but I understand it
may be useful as a base/reference.)
- bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support,
Glenn Morris <=