Re: difficulty adjusting vertical and horizontal panel sizes in gtk3 programs

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 30/3/25 a las 22:33, Greg A. Woods escribió:
> At Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:45:11 +0200, Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Re: difficulty adjusting vertical and horizontal panel sizes in gtk3 programs
> > This is a nightmare, not important but a nightmare anyway ;-)
>
> Many of us, or myself at least!, consider the nightmare to be Gnome
> itself, and we try to avoid it at all cost.

:-)


> For example I'm going to endeavour to ditch Gtk from my next GNU Emacs
> build.  I have test builds of emacs 29.x configured using the "lucid"
> toolkit and I'm much happier with it.

Interesting.

> It doesn't help that neither GTK-2.x nor GTK-3.x apps can be
> static-linked either.  I detest dynamic linking for most of the uses it
> gets and vastly prefer to static-link everything.

I did not know about that. Everyday I learn something interesting here.

Regards.




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