Re: --with-gtk as default?

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> So how would this strategy be?  If no toolkit is specified and GTK+ is
> available, use GTK+ if it does not crash on display close.
>   

These, and the changes necessary to avoid using GTK on Cygwin by 
default, are significant changes to the configure step, so they really 
need to wait until after release. I don't see any safe way to make GTK 
the default for this release. Maybe we should write to the maintainers 
of Emacs packages for the major GNU/Linux distributions and request that 
they make GTK the default downstream. Although the figures we've seen 
show that emacs-snapshot-gtk is already more popular than 
emacs-snapshot, users of both of those are already going out of their 
way to investigate and decide which package is best. Most users do not 
have that motivation, and will still be using the "emacs" package, and 
it is those users we want to get the best out of the box experience. 
People who build from source are probably in the bleeding-edge category, 
and will find out about --with-gtk on their own, so I don't think we 
need to worry so much about them