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Re: Post-22.1 development?
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Nick Roberts |
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Re: Post-22.1 development? |
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Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:10:16 +1200 |
> > What does the feedback consist of? Users saying they wish the GTK
> > build were the default? I believe there are some. However, how many
> > users said nothing because they are happy that GTK is NOT the default?
>
> There's a long thread on fedora-devel (Why isn't emacs installed by
> default)
>
> I can't read it there, but I would like to know what it says
> that is relevant.
>
> What did people there say about this particular question?
> And how many of them supported it?
It's a bit rambling, but the relevant part is how Emacs doesn't sit naturally
on a modern Desktop. I don't fully understand the issues but Jan D. could
probably explain them.
This is what Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte dot net> say:
> > Can you please explain what you are talking about? By "targets
> > 1995-ish desktops," do you mean that emacs lacks pop-up windows,
> > icons, menus, and so, on? Or something else you desire?
> I mean emacs does not use the current desktop font infrastructure,
> does not use one of the main GUI desktop toolkits, does not support
> cleanly i18n & our main encoding (UTF-8), does not integrate with the
> accessibility infrastructure, does not integrate with the printing
> infrastructure, and the list goes on and on.
I've not cross-posted, but you could ask him how specifically it could be
improved, e.g., I don't know what he means by printing infrastructure.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
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- Re: Post-22.1 development?, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/06
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- Re: Post-22.1 development?, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/08
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