Re: Platform independent graphical display for Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25.12.2021 16:31, Po Lu wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
> > AFAIK, no ports other than PGTK have any Wayland support either.
>
> > So with the transition of GNU/Linux world from X to Wayland, we'd
> > either have drop all other ports (aside from w32 and ns, I suppose),
> > or end up dealing with this somehow anyway.
>
> We are not going to drop the X port.  Wayland is important, but it's
> only available on a small amount of systems, certainly not all the
> Unix-like systems currently support.
>
> Other free systems such as FreeBSD immediately come to mind.

PGTK still supports X. And supports well, AFAIK.

But with it becoming increasingly irrelevant over the coming decade, it 
should become more and more practical to drop the other ports. Though 
I'm sure we'll be reluctant to do that.