Re: PGTK-related misconceptions

[Po Lu]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri 15 Apr 2022 at 10:29am +08, Po Lu wrote:
>
>> People using X should _never_ use PGTK.  The regular X build does a much
>> better job at supporting that than PGTK ever will.
>
> The discussion of pgtk in INSTALL doesn't say this.  If I was packaging
> Emacs for a distro I think I could be misled into thinking I should
> replace my gtk package with pgtk.  But in fact I should supply both.

INSTALL already recommends PGTK only for using alternative window
systems, not X, which is explained first.

Thanks.