Re: PGTK-related misconceptions

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Fri 15 Apr 2022 at 10:29am +08, Po Lu wrote:

> People using X should _never_ use PGTK.  The regular X build does a much
> better job at supporting that than PGTK ever will.

The discussion of pgtk in INSTALL doesn't say this.  If I was packaging
Emacs for a distro I think I could be misled into thinking I should
replace my gtk package with pgtk.  But in fact I should supply both.

Here is a very simple suggested addition:

> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index b1e3c72c4b..6cbd74ed55 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ to force GTK+ to run under Broadway, start Emacs like this:
>
>  (where '...' denotes any further options you may want to pass to Emacs).
>
> +If you use X exclusively, do not use the PGTK port.  There are a
> +number of respects in which the regular --with-x-toolkit=gtk build
> +works better.
> +
>  The GNUstep build also supports the Wayland window system.  If that is
>  what you want, see nextstep/INSTALL.

-- 
Sean Whitton