GNU bug report logs - #26180
Remove motif toolkit support

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:15:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.2

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 26180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:37:34 +0100

>>>>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:32:21 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:

    Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:
    >>>>>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 04:29:56 -0500, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> said:
    >> 
    Glenn> 4 years later, some progress in db23785.
    >> 
    >> I do appear to have poked the hornets' nest there.

    Lars> Have there been any protests yet?  :-)

Not virulent ones. The one argument Iʼve seen advanced that might
carry some weight is that CDE uses Motif, and forcing emacs under CDE
to use Lucid would make it look less integrated. I have no idea how
popular CDE is, though.

Robert
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