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

[Samuel Banya]

Hey Jean,

Saw your post on Dragonfly BSD and Linux in general.

Curious, do you have any of your dotfiles anywhere? 

Was always curious to maybe switch to a BSD but haven't found one that had a 
decent installer. 

Would be neat to check out your dotfiles if you have any.

Thanks,

Sam

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022, at 12:51 PM, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2022-02-19 10:34]:
> > > 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.
> 
> That means on Unix-like systems. It is better expressed that way. GNU
> is Not Unix, true, though it is very much Unix-like, such systems are
> mentioned as Unices if I remember well. 
> 
> GNU is Unix-like and there are variations, there is also GNU with
> FreeBSD kernel, though I don't know if there are still users. GNU with
> Hurd kernel is Unix like, and GNU with Linux is also so much Unix like
> system.
> 
> GNU is not Unix because it is free software and also free not to
> follow constraints and standards -- though my impression is that it
> does follow it.
> 
> I feel fine with DragonFlyBSD and GNU/Linux-libre systems, as user I
> do not see differences, majority of basic command line tools are more
> or less same. I do prefer GNU tools for reasons of --help and
> --version and some consistency.
> 
> Though when I use Haiku, that is something totally different, and
> proprietary Windoze systems which I encounter at other people's
> computers look rather too simple as there is no much options to change
> how desktop looks like, and one is forced to use mouse so much by many
> applications.
> 
> Jean
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