Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chad Brown <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:37:09 -0700
> Cc: Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> I'm actually not looking at it as a problem to be solved at all, but rather 
> as a blue-sky project to investigate what might be possible with new display 
> toolkits.  By way of example, in past discussions about using systems like 
> (but not exactly) khtml, gecko, or gnome's canvas with emacs, it was 
> suggested that emacs had certain requirements that such systems could not 
> meet.  My guess is that while this is still true to some degree, there might 
> be new systems that could get along with emacs' needs, and that might offer 
> features not currently available to emacs.

I'm not sure I follow: are you looking for toolkits that can be used
to replace the Emacs display engine, i.e. those toolkits that support
everything Emacs needs and does today?