Re: Release v1.4?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Brian Cully <bjc@spork.org> skribis:

> 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?
>
> 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’.