Re: Compiling Emacs with GTK

[Hendrik Sattler]

August wrote:

> On tor, 2005-02-24 at 00:26 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> August <fusionfive@comhem.se> writes:
>> 
>> > Can I compile Emacs so that it uses GTK style scrollbar and menubar?
>> > I have tried to configure Emacs 21.3 with the `--with-x-toolkit'
>> > option, but it doesn't work.
>> 
>> It wouldn't.  You need a developer version of Emacs to compile for
>> GTK.
> 
> I assume you mean Emacs CVS. As GTK has been around for quite some time
> it's strange that the standard release still has no support for it. The
> standard (Motif?) scrollbar looks (excuse me) so darn ugly and I think
> Emacs deserves a more appealing appearance on the GNOME desktop.
> 
> How (exactly) do I download and compile the developer version of Emacs?
> I have no experience with CVS.

But you can read, the page is even localized to some languages:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs

HS