On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 03:07:02PM +0000, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > I wrote: > > > Patch 8.2.4527 > > Problem: The Athena GUI is old and does not work well. > > Solution: Remove the Athena GUI from configure to find out who still wants > > support for this GUI. > > Files: src/configure.ac, src/auto/configure, src/Makefile > > Perhaps the NeXtaw GUI should also be removed. It's basically the same > as Athena with some nicer looking widgets. Opinions?
FWIW, here's some data about "old" GUI support on the Debian side. We started providing a lesstif-based package around 2003. In 2011, we switched to using Athena for the non-GTK/Gnome based GUI (for reasons I don't recall). Based on Debian's "Popularity Contest"[0] stats, vim-athena has around twice[1] the amount of active users that vim-lesstif ever did. However, that's still quite the minority (147 / 42,086 [2]) of people that have some Vim version installed, as correlated by having vim-common installed. For GUI users[3], it's 147 Athena to 3128 GTK, so still pretty small but not quite as bad. I guess it's time to either transition those folks back to a Motif GUI or drop the non-GTK GUI from Debian. [0]: https://popcon.debian.org/ [1]: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim-athena%2Cvim-lesstif&show_vote=on&beenhere=1 [2]: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim-athena%2Cvim-common&show_vote=on&from_date=2022-03-01&beenhere=1 [3]: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim-athena%2Cvim-gtk3&show_vote=on&from_date=2022-03-01&beenhere=1 -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20220312020936.p62w2eborec5j42x%40localhost.
