Re: Release v1.4?

[Brian Cully via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

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.

> (FWIW folks like me who use exwm, ratpoison, or one of these 
> geeky
> tiling window managers probably can’t switch.)

This is correct, but I don't see why this should prevent Guix 
offering the option for Wayland-based compositors/window-managers 
out of the box as all it does is offer more options for users.

> I have no objection to defaulting to Wayland, but my gut feeling 
> is that
> we have enough on our plate for 1.4 already, so I’d rather delay 
> that
> post-release.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I don't believe that 
setting the ‘wayland’ flag to #t in gdm-configuration causes 
Wayland to be used for your desktop environment, it merely 
*allows* it to be selected from the greeter. When logging in you 
can select from Gnome under X, Gnome under Wayland, or other 
window managers you may have installed under either 
environment. Without that flag only the X11 window managers will 
be selectable.

-bjc