Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Jean Louis]

* Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> [2021-02-12 12:36]:
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ~/.../archives/emacs-bugs
> > $ grep '^In.*pc-linux-gnu' 2018-* 2019-* 2020-*|grep -i 'motif'|wc -l
> > 3
> >
> > So itʼs ~80% GTK, 16% Lucid, and Motif can be removed.
> 
> Thanks for the analysis, and I agree that if we're going to remove
> anything Motif seems like the obvious candidate here.
> 
> One possible thing to take into consideration: Are there any systems
> (that we care about) where Motif is the only toolkit solution
> available?

Motif:
http://www.opengroup.org/desktop/motif.html

CDE:
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/

As Motif offers high degree of compatibility for various systems it
would not be good to remove it for the sake of users on those
systems.

Jean