Re: How to use left mouse for Xaw3d scoll bar?
On 09 Jan 2002, John Paul Wallington wrote:
> Johan Walles <d92-jwa@nada.kth.se> writes:
>
>> PS: I'm under the impression that Emacs has support for Motif, but
>> not for GTK+. Is that so? In that case, anybody but me find this
>> weird?
>
> That's so. Bill Perry developed Gtk-XEmacs which has been folded in
> to XEmacs proper but is still considered experimental.
It's considered experimental for very good reason, too. There are a fair
number of oddities with it and, unless you wish to help with
development, it's probably not the nicest thing to try using.
[...]
> The weirdness is historical. The GNU project decided to use X11 as
> their window system, but didn't standardise on a toolkit. Lesstif
> progressed slowly (it's pretty good now). GTK is weird because it
> transcends X toolkitiness;
Well, because it ignored many of the standard behaviors for an X
toolkit, anyway. Hence the lack of the standard specifiers for geometry
for a long time with it, and other ... questionable bits of dropped
functionality.
Daniel
--
...I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Sun monitors on fire off the
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Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last
week. Time to die...
-- Peter Gutmann, _alt.sysadmin.recovery_
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