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Re: Release v1.4?
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Josselin Poiret |
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Re: Release v1.4? |
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Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:45:59 +0200 |
Hello,
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?
It does, but only through XWayland which is not ideal, and doesn't look
as good as Emacs on native X or emacs-pgtk on Wayland (font rendering in
XWayland isn't as good as either of those).
> (FWIW folks like me who use exwm, ratpoison, or one of these geeky
> tiling window managers probably can’t switch.)
Maybe someone would love to write ewwm? :p
> Yeah, understood. (I think we should have a section in the manual
> documenting, with actual examples, how to set up Wayland!)
>
> Surely there’s a geek audience who expects Wayland, and another geek
> audience who needs X for their tools; in between, there’s probably a lot
> of people who’s fine either way.
What I was advocating was only to change GDM's default mode to Wayland,
not force everyone to use a Wayland compositor! The reason is that GDM
running in X mode will not pick up Wayland sessions, whereas GDM running
in Wayland mode will happily list and launch both types. Also, note
that X software can run on Wayland through XWayland, which is part of
the official xorg project and works quite well, minus some small
wrinkles such as the one noted above.
> 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.
>
> WDYT?
Seems ok to me, since in any case most people trying out Guix in a VM
will `guix pull` before `guix reconfigure`'ing, as long as we do that at
some point it will work OOTB for them. We can postpone all of this for
after the release.
Best,
--
Josselin Poiret
Re: Release v1.4?, Josselin Poiret, 2022/06/10
- Re: Release v1.4?, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/06/15
- Re: Release v1.4?, Gábor Boskovits, 2022/06/15
- Re: Release v1.4?, Josselin Poiret, 2022/06/16
- Re: Release v1.4?, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/06/17
- Re: Release v1.4?,
Josselin Poiret <=
- Re: Release v1.4?, Brian Cully, 2022/06/17
- Further thoughts on Xorg "vs" Wayland etc -- was: Re: Release v1.4?, bokr, 2022/06/18
- Re: Release v1.4?, Philip McGrath, 2022/06/19
- Re: Release v1.4?, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/06/22
- Re: Release v1.4?, Efraim Flashner, 2022/06/28