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

[Sergey Organov]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> emacsq via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Indeed, GTK is cross-platform and available for Linux and other
>>> systems as well.
>
>> Right, so would it be advantageous for emacs to use the same code for
>> graphic UI on every OS, or is there something which emacs can
>> currently do by accessing the native APIs directly which cannot be
>> done via GTK?
>
> It isn't available on Haiku and doesn't work very well on MS-Windows,
> macOS, and even GNU/Linux.
>

I was under impression that GIMP uses GTK and then it works fine for me
on at least GNU/Linux and MS-Windows. Is Emacs more demanding than GIMP?

Thanks,
-- Sergey Organov