Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[Daniel Jensen]

Michael Powe <michael@trollope.org> writes:

> how many versions of unix include gtk libraries?  i suspect the answer
> is 'none,' but someone can apprise me if i'm wrong.  i know they are
> not on solaris 8, openbsd 2.7 or sunos 4.1 because i have those.  i'd
> be very surprised if they were on freebsd, just because they are gpl.
> therefore, restricting emacs to gtk means restricting its use to linux
> users who use gnome.  not likely.

Why wouldn't FreeBSD use GPL code? They use GCC, right? Doesn't
OpenBSD do that too?

And FYI, GTK is not only for GNOME. It's a standard toolkit on GNU
systems. Many non-GNOME programs use it. You obviously know this as
you are using XFce, another GTK desktop environment.

I don't argue that Emacs should be GTK only, but I do think that GTK
is a great step forward for Emacs. It makes Emacs blend well together
with the rest of the GNU desktop, and I think it will encourage more
would-be users to try it out in the future.

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Daniel Jensen
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