option for loading up a gui specific emacs daemon

[Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>]

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Dear developers of the mighty emacs editor,

I'd like to load emacs with emacs --daemon=gui and then connect to it with
emacsclient -c --sever-file=gui.

This works almost right. The problem is that various popular packages make
extensive use of the (display-graphic-p) function/predicate to query frame
capabilities. For example, a theme package may query (display-graphic-p)
and assign gui or tty colors accordingly.

the thing is that(display-graphic-p) always returns nil in a emacs --deamon
type of loading, because emacs does not know if you are using emacsclient
with a gui or a tty.

Is there a way to say to emacs something like, "look, I'm starting you as a
daemon, but I promise I'll only connect to you with gui frames, so for all
intents and purposes, pretend that you are being started up as a gui".

If there is not a way to do that, maybe we could add that kind of option?

The impact of not having this options is that cosmetic packages that make
use of (display-graphic-p) always look off in a emacs --daemon loading
scenario.

thanks in advance,

Ninrod

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