Re: merging of the xwidget branch to master

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:55:22 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > ./configure --with-xwidgets  --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
> 
> What additinal packages do I have to install?  I am on Debian and the
> only package I have installed specifically for this is libwebkitgtk-dev.
> After doing that I still get:
> 
>   What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
>   What toolkit should Emacs use?                          GTK3
>   ...
>   Does Emacs support Xwidgets?                            no
>        Does xwidgets support webkit(requires gtk3)?       no
>        Does xwidgets support gobject introspection?       no

As another comment on the configure script in this area, I would
suggest a prominent error message if xwidgets were requested, but the
configure script decided not to turn on this option.  Currently, it
does that silently (except for the above indication, which can easily
get lost among the others), which IMO is bad UI.  If the user asked
for xwidgets, but we cannot give it, we should complain loudly.