On fre, 2005-02-25 at 15:18 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You'll probably scream out in horror, but I use > >> --with-gtk --without-toolkit-scroll-bars > >> for my version of Emacs, with a few X resources to make the default > >> scroll bars somewhat broader and nicer in color. > > > > Why Gtk? > > Because the menus are _much_ better, antialiased and Unicode-capable. > The toolbar is nicer to demo as well (I have it off by default). > > > With Athena, you'd get a nicer looking Xaw3d scrollbar (unless your > > Xaw3d was compiled with the evil SCROLLBAR_ARROWS compilation option > > which castrates it like a Motif scrollbar). > > Athena does not mix with Gtk, and Athena menus and dialogs suck > royally.
I think that if the standard Emacs release supported a native look and feel of the menu bar and the scrollbar on the major desktops GNOME, KDE, Windows (XP), Mac OS X etc. everyone would be happy. These are really basic widgets, so it can't be that hard to code it, right? -- August _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
