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Re: What improvements would be truly useful?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:45:08 +0200

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Daniele Nicolodi <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 22:45:25 -0700
> 
> >> Also, GTK support seems a bit of an hack that
> >> requires layering violations (reaching down to the X primitives) to
> >> work.  Being GTK the only modern toolkit supported on Linux (as far as I
> >> know) and the only way to get nartive Wayland support, some radical
> >> cleanup in that area would probably be a good thing.
> > 
> > It's true that GTK support was added in a not very clean way, but I
> > don't think we can throw away support for the other toolkits just yet,
> > because they are still being used.
> 
> I don't think that cleaning up the GTK support requires removing support
> for any other toolkit, and I'm far from suggesting something like that.

Then how should we understand your suggestion for "radical cleanup",
right after asserting that GTK is the only modern toolkit supported by
GNU/Linux?



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