From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Platform independent graphical display for Emacs
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:30:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dbssqn0.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4325730a-864c-4465-caf0-cd75abd4ef78@yandex.ru
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> On 25.12.2021 16:31, Po Lu wrote:
>> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>>
>>> AFAIK, no ports other than PGTK have any Wayland support either.
>>
>>> So with the transition of GNU/Linux world from X to Wayland, we'd
>>> either have drop all other ports (aside from w32 and ns, I suppose),
>>> or end up dealing with this somehow anyway.
>> We are not going to drop the X port. Wayland is important, but it's
>> only available on a small amount of systems, certainly not all the
>> Unix-like systems currently support.
>> Other free systems such as FreeBSD immediately come to mind.
>
> PGTK still supports X. And supports well, AFAIK.
>
> But with it becoming increasingly irrelevant over the coming decade,
> it should become more and more practical to drop the other ports.
> Though I'm sure we'll be reluctant to do that.
Yes.
Some people write here as if time doesn't exist, as if living in some
sort of static universe or on a pre-industrial age :-)
I would be surprised if the proposed system were ready to be released as
an experimental feature in less than 4 years. Add another 4 to stabilize
before it can be considered as a replacement for the legacy graphical
backends.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-25 14:30 UTC|newest]
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2021-12-22 19:19 Motif support xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-22 19:35 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-22 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-22 20:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-23 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-23 7:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-23 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-23 11:46 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-23 11:52 ` Po Lu
2021-12-23 12:43 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-23 12:52 ` Po Lu
2021-12-23 17:35 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-24 0:38 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 1:17 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 1:24 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 1:37 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 8:06 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 8:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-24 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 2:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-24 2:43 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 2:59 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-24 3:17 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 3:26 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 3:36 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 4:30 ` Platform independent graphical display for Emacs Stefan Kangas
2021-12-24 4:44 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 6:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-24 6:43 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 5:24 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-24 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 8:10 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 8:48 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-25 0:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 11:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 11:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 12:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 12:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 12:06 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 13:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 13:36 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 12:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-25 12:29 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 12:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 12:54 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 13:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 13:07 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 13:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-25 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 14:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-25 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 13:39 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 13:44 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-25 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 13:00 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-25 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 13:11 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-25 13:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-25 13:26 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-25 13:27 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-25 11:51 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 13:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 13:31 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 14:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-25 14:30 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2021-12-26 1:12 ` Po Lu
2021-12-26 1:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-26 1:56 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-24 10:02 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 10:16 ` Stephen Berman
2021-12-24 10:54 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 11:07 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 11:29 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 11:31 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 11:39 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 12:08 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 12:22 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 12:27 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 12:57 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 13:09 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 14:27 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 16:05 ` martin rudalics
2021-12-25 0:22 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 9:18 ` martin rudalics
2021-12-25 9:42 ` Po Lu
2021-12-26 8:25 ` martin rudalics
2021-12-26 10:16 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 11:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-24 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 13:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-24 13:26 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 14:00 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-25 0:20 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 0:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-25 0:57 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 3:24 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2021-12-25 5:03 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 5:12 ` Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
2021-12-25 5:23 ` Po Lu
2021-12-25 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 9:18 ` martin rudalics
2021-12-25 5:41 ` LdBeth
2021-12-25 5:51 ` Po Lu
2021-12-24 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 14:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-24 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-25 12:45 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-24 7:17 ` Motif support Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-24 0:46 ` Po Lu
2021-12-23 15:05 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-23 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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