Re: Compiling Emacs with GTK

[August]

On fre, 2005-02-25 at 15:18 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> >> You'll probably scream out in horror, but I use
> >> --with-gtk --without-toolkit-scroll-bars
> >> for my version of Emacs, with a few X resources to make the default
> >> scroll bars somewhat broader and nicer in color.
> >
> > Why Gtk?
> 
> Because the menus are _much_ better, antialiased and Unicode-capable.
> The toolbar is nicer to demo as well (I have it off by default).
> 
> > With Athena, you'd get a nicer looking Xaw3d scrollbar (unless your
> > Xaw3d was compiled with the evil SCROLLBAR_ARROWS compilation option
> > which castrates it like a Motif scrollbar).
> 
> Athena does not mix with Gtk, and Athena menus and dialogs suck
> royally.

I think that if the standard Emacs release supported a native look and
feel of the menu bar and the scrollbar on the major desktops GNOME, KDE,
Windows (XP), Mac OS X etc. everyone would be happy. These are really
basic widgets, so it can't be that hard to code it, right?

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August