Re: [rms@gnu.org: Congratulations on GNOME]

[Matthew Brown <mbrown smartpages com>]

Miguel de Icaza writes:
 > 
 > [ Note that gnome-list@gnome.org will probably bounce rms's reply 
 >   again, so I will forward when I get it ]
 > 
 > > Reading stallman's praises gives me the courage to ask if there is any
 > > chance that emacs will become gnome aware.
 > 
 > There is a high chance yes.  And as far as I know Richard was
 > interested in integrating patches.
 > 
 > I did attempt once to do this.  The widget support is very simple and
 > could be done rapidly.  But Emacs uses Xlib calls to draw directly
 > into the screen in a number of places, and in GNOME you need to use
 > Gdk calls.
 > 
 > My understanding is that the Open/NeXTStep people have patches to
 > Emacs that abstract all of the drawing primitives.  So, I would rather
 > start from that work than redoing it all over again.

Any references to this stuff?  I would like to take a look ...

-Matt