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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Message #6 received at 26180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 26180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:01:02 +0100

> I'd like to suggest removing support for the Motif toolkit.
>
> Motivation:
> Supporting more toolkits (gtk2, gtk3, lucid, motif, none) makes it
> harder to develop relevant low-level features.

I can't recall a case where supporting Motif, Lucid or "none" would
have possibly hindered anyone to fix one of the well known bugs with
GTK/GDK, Cairo and friends.  OTOH, I often use Motif, Lucid and "none"
to simply verify that an arbitrary feature just works or used to work
and it's only the GTK or Cairo builds which break it.

So I'm voting against your suggestion.

martin
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