bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Jeremy Bicha]

GNOME has dropped its MediaKeys plugin in its 42 Beta release. It had
been deprecated for a while; MPRIS is the recommended replacement.

org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge_requests/268

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> writes:

> GNOME has dropped its MediaKeys plugin in its 42 Beta release. It had
> been deprecated for a while; MPRIS is the recommended replacement.
>
> org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge_requests/268
>
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bicha

Where do we have GNOME MediaKeys support?

And we won't remove support for GNOME features the moment they are
removed in the latest version of GNOME, since it takes more stable
distributions several years to catch up.

Thanks.

bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Where do we have GNOME MediaKeys support?

The only mention I can find of "MediaKeys" in the Emacs sources are in
examples in manuals and doc strings:

@result{} (("/org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys"
     ("org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys")

Jeremy, is this what you had in mind?

> And we won't remove support for GNOME features the moment they are
> removed in the latest version of GNOME, since it takes more stable
> distributions several years to catch up.

Indeed.

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bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> The only mention I can find of "MediaKeys" in the Emacs sources are in
> examples in manuals and doc strings:
>
> @result{} (("/org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys"
>      ("org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys")
>
> Jeremy, is this what you had in mind?

If that's indeed what Jeremy had in mind, then IMO we should postpone
updating the documentation to remove those mentions until GNOME 42 is
released, otherwise it will not represent what is canonically installed
on a up-to-date system.

Thanks.

bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 7:47 AM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> > The only mention I can find of "MediaKeys" in the Emacs sources are in
> > examples in manuals and doc strings:
> >
> > @result{} (("/org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys"
> >      ("org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys")
> >
> > Jeremy, is this what you had in mind?
>
> If that's indeed what Jeremy had in mind, then IMO we should postpone
> updating the documentation to remove those mentions until GNOME 42 is
> released, otherwise it will not represent what is canonically installed
> on a up-to-date system.

Yes, that's all. I did a search for things that mentioned GNOME's
MediaKeys. It's already deprecated so people shouldn't use it and
assume it will still be there in the future.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> writes:

> Yes, that's all. I did a search for things that mentioned GNOME's
> MediaKeys. It's already deprecated so people shouldn't use it and
> assume it will still be there in the future.

Thanks, then I'll update the documentation once GNOME 42 is released and
close this report.

bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> writes:
>
>> Yes, that's all. I did a search for things that mentioned GNOME's
>> MediaKeys. It's already deprecated so people shouldn't use it and
>> assume it will still be there in the future.
>
> Thanks, then I'll update the documentation once GNOME 42 is released and
> close this report.

Just a reminder about this: GNOME 42 was released on March 23, 2022.

bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

>> Thanks, then I'll update the documentation once GNOME 42 is released and
>> close this report.

> Just a reminder about this: GNOME 42 was released on March 23, 2022.

Right, I forgot about that.  It will be done shortly.