GNUStep is a great example: I agree with you - it was w-a-a-a-y before its time. Still, I wasn't willing to go down that path alone. I worked on XEmacs for a long time, but eventually, I gave up - it just got too hard and too lonely.
What I am saying is, I guess, it's all a personal choice. - vin shelton On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 4:13 AM Abraham S.A.H. <arash....@tuta.io> wrote: > > I'm not exactly what you're looking for, from Emacs or from the mailing > > list. > > >From Emacs, to have as many functionalities working as possible with the > least trade-offs and the least bugs and issues as possible. > > >From mailing list, to tell me what Emacs they use and if they have some > specific reason to choose it over others. > > > Is an archaic UI good or bad? > > It's not an objective matter. > I personally saw GNUStep UI to be very much appealing. But it's not > widely seen the same by other people. > > > Is drag-n-drop required? > > Not *Required*, of course. > I didn't have the opportunity to try it. > > > I turn off the toolbars and menubars. > > I do turn off tool/menu/scroll bars all together anyway. > I even turn off the title bar of the frame decoration. > > (fos...@pwned.life) <mailto:fos...@pwned.life>> I used `emacs-wayland` > for a while instead of Emacs, because I already use > a Wayland compositor > > I installed the `emacs-wayland` as the first Emacs of my life. Since my > whole setup was pure Wayland. > But I really need that daemon to stay awake all the time and do not crash > when switching desktops, ttys, users and login/logouts. It and many other > things appear to not work, and probably will never work, with GTK toolkit > of Emacs. > > (aaronliu0...@gmail.com)> If you've already tried all of them, I don't > know what to say. The Arch-maintained repo sounds like the stablest, and > "emacs-wayland - with native compilation and PGTK enabled." sounds very > appealing to me. > > That's so enlightening of you, Aaron. ;) > > -- > Best Regards, > Abraham > Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com > -- Whoa, I'm just surprised at how accurate that description of me really is: some old cowboy guy that used to shoot movies at Spahn Ranch
