Re: SVG widget in GNU Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:15:02 +0800
> 
> I remember a proprietary version of Emacs (not derived from GNU Emacs)
> having the ability to display arbitrary X Toolkit (such as Motif or
> Athena widgets) widgets inside frames, along with providing protocol
> bindings to X-Windows.
> 
> Would it make sense to extend the existing xwidget feature to support
> this?  Now that I think of it, I think such a feature would greatly
> benefit GNU Emacs.

>From my POV, the xwidget feature is incomplete and not maintained very
well.  As long as this is the case, extending such an incomplete
feature is waste of our resources.