Dear edition maintainers, what would be the most suitable Emacs for your edition?
We build four different GNU Emacs binaries in Fedora. From newest to oldest:
• emacs-pgtk - “Pure” GTK. Wayland (and Broadway) native. Is reportedly better on high-DPI screens, but is disrecommended on X11 by upstream, where is has some bugs versus the hybrid GTK/X11 build. Styled via the GTK theme.
• emacs-gtk+x11 - Uses a mixture of GTK and X11 calls, so can only run on Wayland via XWayland. Styled partly via the GTK theme, and partly via X resources.
• emacs-lucid - Unlike GTK, the Lucid toolkit can repeatedly connect and disconnect from an X11 server, which can be useful when running Emacs remotely. Again, requires XWayland on Wayland. Styled via X resources. Looks at bit more basic (some might say old-fashioned) compared to the GTK builds.
• emacs-nw - “no window system”. Terminal only. Fewer dependecies.
This is potentially pretty confusing for users, so, in Fedora 43, I’ve had a go at suggesting suitable default subpackages for when a user does “dnf install emacs”:
Suggests: (emacs-nw if fedora-release-basic)
Suggests: (emacs-nw if fedora-release-cloud)
Suggests: (emacs-nw if fedora-release-container)
Suggests: (emacs-nw if fedora-release-coreos)
Suggests: (emacs-gtk+x11 if fedora-release-i3)
Suggests: (emacs-nw if fedora-release-iot)
Suggests: (emacs-gtk+x11 if fedora-release-matecompiz)
Suggests: (emacs-pgtk if fedora-release-miraclewm)
Suggests: (emacs-pgtk if fedora-release-miraclewm-atomic)
Suggests: (emacs-pgtk if fedora-release-mobility)
Suggests: (emacs-nw if fedora-release-server)
Suggests: (emacs-pgtk if fedora-release-silverblue)
Suggests: (emacs-pgtk if fedora-release-sway)
Suggests: (emacs-pgtk if fedora-release-sway-atomic)
Suggests: (emacs-nw if fedora-release-toolbx)
Suggests: (emacs-pgtk if fedora-release-workstation)
Suggests: (emacs-gtk+x11 if fedora-release-xfce)
People who use or maintain these editions: does the above look reasonable? Could anyone fill in the blanks below?
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-budgie)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-budgie-atomic)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-cinnamon)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-compneuro)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-cosmic)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-cosmic-atomic)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-designsuite)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-kde)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-kde-mobile)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-kinoite)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-kinoite-mobile)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-lxqt)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-soas)
Suggests: (emacs-??? if fedora-release-wsl)
--
Peter Oliver
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