Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets

[Akira Kyle]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 01:06 PM, joakim@verona.se wrote:

> Yes, I think that sounds more realistic than my original plan to 
> expose
> the gobject api to lisp.

Thanks! I'm glad it's at least somewhat sane sounding.

> BTW did you look at the widget that allows embedding of other
> applications? I had some success embedding emacs inside emacs 
> using this
> widget, and maybe it has evolved during the years.

I assume you're referring to the XEMBED protocol which I haven't 
really looked at. I've actually been using the pgtk port [1] in 
developing this to ensure I'm not tying myself to X as so much of 
Emacs' display code has been as it evolved. Also there's some 
rendering issue [2] with xwidgets under X which causes a lot of 
flickering of the webkitgtk widget. I have yet to look into it, 
but it doesn't seem to affect pgtk or ns.

[1] https://github.com/masm11/emacs
[2] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=41609