Re: Tookits (was Re: Emacs as browser)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:39:26 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Philippe Vaucher <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
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> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:53:15 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The only advantage of Qt is that it's multi-platform, but GTK is
> > also multi-platform.
> 
> Well, to be precise, it seems to be "mostly" multiplatform. By this I
> mean that it appears that it is possible for features that use the API
> to build on the X side but not on other systems. For example,
> apparently the GTK based xwidgets stuff doesn't build on OS X, or at
> least doesn't currently.

Only because no one wrote the Emacs supporting code for the other
platforms.

GTK is available on all platforms we support with GUI frames, so it's
"only" a matter of integrating it into Emacs on the other platforms.