GNU bug report logs - #57372
no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font configuration

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Message #170 received at 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Tomas Hlavaty <tom <at> logand.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57372: no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font
 configuration
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:59:26 +0800

Tomas Hlavaty <tom <at> logand.com> writes:

> I never understood why web browsers depend on widget toolkits
> when they already implement everything needed
> and do not adhere to "native" look-and-feel anyway.
> Widget toolkits impose such inflexible restrictions
> and import annoying problems.

Firefox uses its own code to display right-click menus.  It just tries
to style it like GTK.

> Like somebody recently complained about 2sec delay when opening Emacs menu.
> tmm-menubar does not solve it fully, because in gui emacs,
> menu invocations by mouse are hardcoded to use toolkit based menu.

A 2 second delay is too long, unless GC runs during menu bar
initialization.

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