On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:02 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote: > The GTK2 support is indeed only in Emacs CVS, and is still > regarded as experimental -- there are some problems with the > scrollbars apparently. I haven't gone out of my way to spot a bug with the GTK2 support, but from using an Emacs with this support compiled in for a week, I have run into absolutely no problems. I saw the discussion of the GTK2 scrollbar problem in the emacs-devel list last fall, but as far as I can tell, that problem has been fixed. > Of course whether GTK2 and XFT/Fontconfig support is ready for > prime-time or not, I cannot understand why there hasn't been a new > release of Emacs in something like 2 years. I think Emacs has a > lot of good developers working on it but no one with really strong > project management skills. You may be right. What _I_ don't understand is that given the rareness of official releases, why the Fedora packagers don't use a CVS snapshot of Emacs. After all, I thought Fedora packages are not supposed to be as bug-free as Red Hat Enterprise packages, so the risk would not be so great. Is this some kind of distribution etiquette thing? Cheers, Alex
