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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID c23aee3ff13eabcd85527ba901576020; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 05:27:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <18276abbdd8.2829.cc5b3318d7e9908e2c46732289705cb0@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:59:03 -0400") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.20523 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:239029 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione writes: > Because, as a pragmatic matter, they don't. We're lucky if users read > fatal error messages. People don't have time to trawl through > documentation before trying something. They read about some cool new > compilation mode on Reddit (scanning just the post titles of course), > them try it. It's not that they're dumb. They've busy. It doesn't > matter whether some file somewhere says a scenario isn't supported: > users are going to try that scenario anyway if it plausibly looks like > it might work, and when it doesn't, they're going to think less of the > whole project. I'd feel much better if pgtk simply refused to start > under X (explaining that it's not supported) than silently give users > a poor experience. How about adding a warning to configure.ac instead? Do you think those users will read that?