On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 09:44:31 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 77496@debbugs.gnu.org
>
>  That's good to hear.  None the less, GNUstep is too seldom used for
>  feature availability there to justify implementing the same features on
>  Mac OS, particularly when Emacs's GNUstep port is known to be unreliable
>  and short of other critical editing features such as Indic or Arabic
>  script shaping support.
>
> Eli asked that the hurdle to be cleared was support of the same feature on a free platform.  If that hurdle is
> based on platform popularity, what are the precise metrics we should use to gauge such?  I'm aware of
> GNUstep being actively used in military, aerospace, and industrial products.  Is Haiku?  Or any other esoteric
> platforms that Emacs supports?

I said explicitly that this should be supported on X or GTK.  I don't
think GNUstep on Linux counts, sorry.  It's too niche a platform for
this purpose.

Fair enough.  I'll keep looking around for pointers and will see if I can make the dbus shell count/count-visible method work.