Re: Platform independent graphical display for Emacs

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> PGTK still supports X. And supports well, AFAIK.

It supports X with many fundamental limitations such as crashing when a
display is closed.  The quality of support GTK gives X is nowhere close
to the X port itself.

There are also several bugs that can't really be fixed, such as
bug#52737, bug#52655 and bug#52677.

> But with it becoming increasingly irrelevant over the coming decade,
> it should become more and more practical to drop the other
> ports.

I don't see it becoming "increasingly irrelevant".  The world is not
only the bleeding edge GNU/Linux systems, there are also older systems,
systems that don't have enough memory for compositing, people who don't
want to use Xwayland (face it, it still doesn't work right), and people
who have to run an X server on platforms such as MS-Windows or the other
free Unix variants.