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emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support

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From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha <at> canonical.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 54046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54046: emacs: Remove GNOME MediaKeys support
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:21:48 -0500

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 7:47 AM Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>
> > The only mention I can find of "MediaKeys" in the Emacs sources are in
> > examples in manuals and doc strings:
> >
> > @result{} (("/org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys"
> >      ("org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys")
> >
> > Jeremy, is this what you had in mind?
>
> If that's indeed what Jeremy had in mind, then IMO we should postpone
> updating the documentation to remove those mentions until GNOME 42 is
> released, otherwise it will not represent what is canonically installed
> on a up-to-date system.

Yes, that's all. I did a search for things that mentioned GNOME's
MediaKeys. It's already deprecated so people shouldn't use it and
assume it will still be there in the future.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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