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From: | Jan D. |
Subject: | Re: porting GNU Emacs to kde (?) |
Date: | Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:44:31 +0200 |
As for the port of the GUI components of Emacs, a general, toolkit independent, interface that will be implemented seperately by GNOME/KDE/GNUstep, should make the porting job easier. I suspect you have done something like this through your efforts to port Emacs to GTK, didn't you ?
No. It was descided that the effort was not worth it. If you look at the code you will see that the W32, Mac, Xt, GTK and X ports of Emacs are separate with different ifdefs. Some common code does exist, but there is no general toolkit independent interface. Which is probably a good thing for GTK. GTK is very unfriendly when it comes to integrate into existing applications, so making firsta toolkit independent interface and then a GTK adaption to that interface
would surely increased the amount of code by a factor of 3 or 4. Jan D.
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