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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:59:38 +0000
> From:  emacsq via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Just wondering if a free toolkit like Gtk supports multiple platforms out of 
> the box then would it make sense to use the same GTK-based code on every 
> graphical platform? So using the same toolkit for everything graphics, 
> instead of implementing features for windows, linux, etc. separately?

Emacs currentl;y supports building with GTK only on GNU and Unix
systems.

> Is there something which native UI code does in emacs UI which GTK could not 
> support?

GTK has many problems, so I very much hope the future of Emacs is not
with GTK, but with some better toolkit.