Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 13:05:30 -0700
> Cc: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>,
>  EMACS development team <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:16 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  I suggest to do this the other way around: make this new behavior
>  optional, until we are sure people expect that.
>  [...] We shouldn't bend our thinking
>  like that, just because we see some trend in other applications and
>  think we can easily follow it with something similar.
> 
> Sure, the conservative approach works here also. What I was suggesting was 
> basically "let's give the distros
> both options and ask/see which they pick". Since we're generally sensitive to 
> changing defaults on releases,
> I think there are ways to ask before releasing, but the data collection is 
> likely to be sparse.

Distros can do whatever they like anyway, and we have no real control
of that.