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Re: Abysmal state of GTK build


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Abysmal state of GTK build
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:52:52 -0400

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  > It will not affect Wayland at all, since the Wayland drag-and-drop API
  > is too limited to allow Emacs to implement drag-and-drop properly there.

  > Most importantly, there is no way to cancel drag-and-drop after it
  > begins (think C-g), or to receive a notification when the pointer
  > reenters the frame where it originated after leaving.

That sounds like a serious flaw in Wayland.  Would its developers
want to fix it?  Does it have other UI drawbacks compared with X11,
and would its developers want to fix them?

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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