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Re: New Emacs with GTK!
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Michael Powe |
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Re: New Emacs with GTK! |
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22 Mar 2003 13:03:08 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:
Miles> kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) writes:
>> I'm wondering - I use NTEmacs, presumably using the MFC GUI
>> classes, emacs on Linux using Lesstif, and emacs on AIX using
>> Motif.
>> As a user (not an emacs developer), why should I carer about
>> gtk2?
Miles> Depends on what's important to you...
yep. what's important to me is editing, not my "desktop theme."
Miles> I like the GTK emacs simply because it (1) matches the look
Miles> of other apps that use GTK (which is, at least in my case,
Miles> many), and (2) looks much, much, much, slicker than the
Miles> clunky-ass *tif (this of course, depends to some degree on
Miles> your choosing a slick-looking GTK theme, though you get
Miles> anti-aliased menus and a nicer-looking toolbar regardless
Miles> :-).
Miles> Some other less personal reasons might include a better
Miles> long term viability for GTK; I expect that once the GTK
Miles> version hits prime-time, it will get a lot more maintenance
Miles> attention than the other versions.
actually, i doubt it. i'm sure that there are many who, like me, do
the bulk of their editing in -- gasp -- the console. gtk will be
worthless to us.
mp
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