Re: Can we go GTK-only?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I don't know how wide Motif and Athena are used; IMO we shouldn't
> delete them if they are still in use.  E.g., are the major Linux
> distros still offering such packages?

Gentoo offers both, and looking at metadata in bugs reported to us, it
appears that both of them are used by a significant fraction of users
(in spite of GTK+ being the build option preferred by our ebuilds).

Also, GTK+ (in version 2 or 3) still crashes for multi-tty Emacs,
due to bug 85715 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715>.
Given that this has been reported 14 years ago, my guess is that it
will never be fixed.

Has anyone tried porting Emacs to Qt? :)

Ulrich