Hi, Brian Cully <b...@spork.org> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@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. Sure. > 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. OK, I wasn’t aware of that; if setting ‘wayland?’ to #t is this smooth and basically indistinguishable for those who want to stick with X, then I guess we should enable it. I’m still unsure whether doing is before the release is reasonable, given how much we have on our plate. Thanks, Ludo’.