Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Is that a new state of affairs, caused by newer GTK version or changes
> in Emacs?

The bug at hand is a new state of affairs caused by the Emacs migration
to XInput 2, which has exposed new bugs in GTK.  In general, however,
GTK support for X11 has become steadily worse since 3.4.

> If not, the GTK3 build has been pretty stable for a lot of us, so
> there's no point in deprecating it over an unusual use case. Or even a
> bunch of them.

It's not being deprecated, just being demoted from the default.
Disabling the trackpad while typing is hardly an "unusual" use-case, and
even comes enabled by default on many systems.