James McCoy 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). I wonder why the lesstif library is still used. Perhaps because nobody bothered to switch it to the now LGPM Motif libraries? AFAIK the Motif libraries are better than lesstif, and these days I suspect lesstif is not being worked on, since the only reason for its existence was that the Motif library was not generally available. > 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. Is there a good reason to not want the Motif version, or does this just require some encouragement for someone to setup the packages? You do not mention it explicitly, but there is no package with the NeXtaw library? -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 238. You think faxes are old-fashioned. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- 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/20220312105957.B381E1C79E4%40moolenaar.net.
