On August 7, 2022 00:29:36 Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
Then emit an error message at runtime if you detect them running on
X11 telling users that things will mysteriously. To let them build
and run pgtk initially, then get frustrated with a few edge cases, is
doing them a disservice. They're not going to read that
documentation.
Why won't they?
Because, as a pragmatic matter, they don't. We're lucky if users read fatal error messages. People don't have time to trawl through documentation before trying something. They read about some cool new compilation mode on Reddit (scanning just the post titles of course), them try it. It's not that they're dumb. They've busy. It doesn't matter whether some file somewhere says a scenario isn't supported: users are going to try that scenario anyway if it plausibly looks like it might work, and when it doesn't, they're going to think less of the whole project. I'd feel much better if pgtk simply refused to start under X (explaining that it's not supported) than silently give users a poor experience.