Re: Release v1.4?

["Philip McGrath" <philip@philipmcgrath.com>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022, at 11:37 AM, Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> So plain ‘emacs’ package doesn’t work on Wayland?  That sounds 
>> like a
>> recipe for a poor user experience, no?
>
> The mainline Emacs is not Wayland-native, but it (along with just 
> about everything else) will run fine under XWayland. It's how I've 
> been running it for some time now. The user experience is almost 
> indistinguishable from either the ‘pgtk’ branch or the mainline, 
> X-only branch.
>

I'm on a foreign distro, but FWIW I've been using plain Emacs 27 with the KDE Plasma Wayland session on HiDPI displays for over a year, and I have no complaints. In fact, I didn't even realize Emacs wasn't Wayland-native until this thread. I took a look just now at the 'emacs-next-pgtk' package in Guix: it does look a bit nicer in a side-by-side comparison, but it's subtle. Either way, mostly Emacs just looks like Emacs. So I don't think Emacs should be a blocker for enabling Wayland by default.

-Philip