Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 18:53:45 +0100
> 
> I opposed to the rhetorics of Po who is blaming it on Gtk bugs and devs having
> their own ideas on input, or what he wrote I don't remember, instead of simply
> saying that Gtk does not fit Emacs needs. I have tried to say why Gtk and 
> Emacs
> does not fit well, instead of leaving the original poster wondering how come
> that Gtk was so rough around the edges after more than 20 years of 
> development,
> as Po has painted it.

Well, some of the problems _are_ due to the GTK developers' decisions
about what a GUI program should or should not have.  An example is the
lack of support for dynamic menus.

And you are wrong emphasizing the input issues.  Our problems with GTK
go far beyond that, as I tried to explain.