Hi,

Noé Lopez <noe@noé.eu> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <ma...@guixotic.coop> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Noé Lopez <noe@noé.eu> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> For Emacs you need to use the "pure" GTK build, whatever that means (and
>>>> I'm not sure why it's not the default):
>>>
>>> Its not the default because it has issues on X11! As is shown in a popup
>>> when you try it on X11.
>>
>> Thanks for the info.  With every day passing, X11 is becoming a bit more
>> niche... perhaps there should be a rename like:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> emacs -> emacs-for-x
>> emacs-pgtk -> emacs
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> I wonder what other distributions are doing. We could follow suite if
>> their naming makes sense.
>>
>
> IIRC, usually emacs=no graphical emacs-x=emacs X11 and emacs-pgtk is for
> wayland. Not sure who does that though.

I looked at what Fedora does [0], and this is their list of packages,
which is similar to what we do; it's not clear what 'emacs' alone does,
it seems some GTK build without x11? If so, that doesn't make much sense
to me.

> What about emacs-pgtk and emacs-lucid, to force the user to make an
> informed choice?

We already have emacs-pgtk and emacs-lucid. I guess we're mostly in line
with people's expectations if coming from other distributions.

[0]  https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/emacs/

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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