Re: x-popup-dialog in gtk emacs

[Jan D.]

> > Motif and GTK does pop down on ESC.
>
> Does that mean that Gtk treats ESC specially?  That seems a bit
> unfortunate, though I suppose it's not a big deal if it's only when a
> menu is dropped down.

It is special.  How is that unfortunate?  It only happens when a menu
or dialog has the input focus.

> > And if you have some window manager,
> > there usualy are some "kill window" button on the title bar.
>
> The dialogue box doesn't have WM decoration, so you can't get rid of
> it that way.

It is WM dependent.  My WM (fvwm) decorates them.

> > GTK is very inefficient for Emacs dynamic menus.
>
> Ah, I didn't realize that popups were special, if that's what it
> means.  Thanks for the explanation.  This probably deserves a mention
> in PROBLEMS or somewhere else.

Actually I was talking about the menu bar menus.  Popup menus are 
recreated
every time they are used, so they are even slower.  Some sort of caching
could fix that, but I am not sure it is worth the effort (murphys law
and all that).

        Jan D.