From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';' Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:11:52 +0200 Message-ID: <831r0443tj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871r04zqbv.fsf@yahoo.com> <838ruc458z.fsf@gnu.org> <874k50xmye.fsf@yahoo.com> <835ypg449d.fsf@gnu.org> <877d9ww7k7.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37163"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: raman@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 15:17:40 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nJye8-0009IK-67 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:17:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41388 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJye5-00083s-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJyYY-0007l1-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=56890 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJyYY-0004ir-KN; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:11:50 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=LctCnrGp7tSoxoPnJPRtG6/EePPuHSxCw2wQxKwmUvM=; b=TCl5a25U1adt Z/fEUcDoSqt22YkSuBCtxTFKwM4zehKkDmzCaF/vYTw4eoQBr1F4QMFnYP7JMIBX8XeUdjFDfJ4yj FmC4/ddjjF3sCVtoCcTIeTfKZYySWmxIDbMKqKBa2Lc+VOc79NgIT0IOWGeG9xG/BydKi4OBm8ngI GEEnAdGzDiIXqbJAiK9FyRjn3cAnSrNHnRwwCsDcKlg5+IS6/T33MF9YwvFw1xCuV0I5mMx5UblP+ Pqf5K2h1PddLpgPfBIYB/laIB18aB2JJmh3+nGMytWWFj6X46z9bjIfMXvSOVmFWRCmCgi7AkWxFZ R54LY69AO4YCKvAeOXOP3Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4972 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJyYX-0003RQ-Oa; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:11:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877d9ww7k7.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:03:36 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286334 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:03:36 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > IMNSHO, not explicitly enough: > > > > ** Emacs now supports being built with pure GTK. > > To use this option, make sure the GTK 3 and Cairo development files > > are installed, and configure Emacs with the option '--with-pgtk'. > > Unlike the default X and GTK build, the resulting Emacs binary will > > work on any underlying window system supported by GDK, such as > > Wayland and Broadway. > > > > No matter how many times I re-read this, I fail to understand that it > > tells me not to use it on X, and it definitely doesn't warn me of any > > downsides if I do. A word of warning is definitely in order there. > > How about "the resulting Emacs binary is supposed to work with window > systems other than X that are supported by GDK, such as Wayland and > Broadway"? I'd suggest something more explicit, like We do not recommend that you use this configuration, unless you are running a window system that's supported by GDK, such as Wayland or Broadway. Running this configuration on X is known to have problems, like ... (describe a couple of problems instead of the ellipsis).