Re: Motif support

[Po Lu]

xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

> You kinda have to use platform dependent features directly, as we are
> not programming into aether. However, painting menus isn't one.  You
> don't need a third-party solution, whether it is from platform itself
> like legacy win32 GUI elements or another library. Using them is like
> using a sledgehammer to drive a nail in Emacs' case. We could even do
> the text rendering itself too, provided an expert would contribute it
> to Emacs.

That is simply untrue.  Besides, people _want_ the platform specific
widgets, or otherwise we'd just be porting oldXMenu everywhere.

> But no one said let's do text rendering, AFAIK.

That's what Authur said about FreeType.