GNU bug report logs - #77496
[PATCH] Add 'ns-app-badge' to set macOS / GNUstep icon badge

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Message #47 received at 77496 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 77496 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77496: [PATCH] Add 'ns-app-badge' to set macOS / GNUstep icon
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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:34:38 +0300

> From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 09:44:31 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 77496 <at> 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.

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