Re: Motif support

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think we want to reinstate Motif support.

The code still works perfectly: reinstating that line allowed me to
configure and build a functioning Motif Emacs, even with new features
such as XInput2.

The Motif build also has some technical advantages over others these
days.  For example, Motif at present has the only working toolkit
scrollbars on X where the thumb size is adjusted when it is dragged.

I spent a while trying to fix bug#51343 a few weeks ago and didn't get
anywhere, and implementing toolkit scrollbars correctly on GTK isn't
possible anyway, as the GTK developers don't want programs to control
the thumb size.

Icon window menus on mwm also work correctly only with Motif Emacs.

Also, I think that discussion boiled down to "let's remove it and see if
anyone notices"... well, I noticed :)

It won't hurt to keep that code, especially since nobody has managed to
break in close to a year since it was disabled, even with large features
such as XInput2 and the xwidgets update.

Thanks.