GTK+ GUI target for emacs?

[Will Benton <bentonw stolaf edu>]

I was curious whether or not the FSF (or anyone else) had considered 
making a possible GTK target for emacs as standard in Emacs 21.  I know 
that the current version will target Motif, Athena, raw Xlib, etc. as 
a ./configure option, but Emacs is currently the ugly duckling on my 
Gnome desktop, and could benefit from a facelift as well as some other 
things.  (I'm thinking that being able to write elisp handlers for DnD 
events would be pretty cool, for example.)

I guess I'm also wondering why this hasn't been done yet.  Is GTK that 
different from the other toolkits (or is the UI and the main app so 
tightly coupled in emacs) that this is really a major undertaking?

Please cc me on any replies.




thanks,
wb

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