Re: emacs-21.0.91: successful build on IBM AIX 4.3

[Stefan Monnier]

> > The system on which I did the installation lacks the Athena Toolkit
> > <X11/Xaw/*.h>, so I built instead with the Motif Toolkit.  [On another
> > local IBM workstation running AIX 4.2, the Athena Toolkit IS
> > installed.]  This exposed a minor GUI discrepancy: with Athena, the
> > menu bar looks like
> > 
> > File Edit Options Buffers Tools Emacs-Lisp Help
> > 
> > but with Motif, it looks like
> > 
> > File Edit Options Buffers Tools Emacs-Lisp                    Help
> >
> > The last button is flush right.  I have no strong feelings about
> > either, although I think movement of Help to the right does make it
> > more visible, and that is probably a GOOD THING.
> 
> The right-aligned Help is a Motif feature.  I'm sure it can be
> customized with some X resource, but I don't have enough Motif
> documentation to tell which one (the docs of LessTif are very bad.)
> The right-aligned Help is the Motif standard, AFAIK.

Also I disagree that the fact that there is a difference is a bug.
I'd happily see the Lucid menubar behave more like Motif's (i.e.
`Help' stuck to the right), but I don't think that Motif should
be "dumbed down" just because the Lucid tookit doesn't support a
feature.

        
        Stefan