Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[John Russell]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:
> 
> > David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> > 
> > > John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Wow, can't argue with that.  But just assume for a second that I would
> > > > like to wallow in the hedonistic tendencies of flashy GUI loveliness
> > > > de jur, where can I get gtk2-emacs?  i have seen other posts that
> > > > said, its in CVS.  Uhhh, pardon my ignorance.  Whose cvs tree?  Emacs
> > > > cvs?  Is there a tarball somewhere, or even a website?  Anything?
> > > 
> > > <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs>
> > > 
> > > > Google doesn't even know about this project.
> > > 
> > > Pardon?  The query
> > > 
> > >   Emacs CVS
> > > 
> > > turns up the above link as its first hit.
> > 
> > "this project" was not meant to refer to emacs, but gtk/gtk2-emacs.
> > I tried things like
> > 
> > gtk emacs
> > gtk2 emacs
> > gtk-emacs
> > gtk2-emacs
> > emacs gtk
> > 
> > and came up with little but archane news posts about png not loading
> > properly.  Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> There is no "gtk2 Emacs" project.  gtk2 is just one toolkit among
> others in the normal Emacs code base.

Ok, I managed to download emacs from cvs and compiled with gtk as my
toolkit.  Very nice.  The menus are anti-aliased nicely, but one
thing that I was REALLY hoping for, still wasn't there.  Are there
plans for freedesktop standard drag and drop support, even if its
just with the gtk version?  

John