bug#81428: 31.0.90; add support for the kmscon terminal emulator

On 2026-08-01 12:02 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:39:13 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
>> 
>> > Cc: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
>> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:04:51 +0200
>> > From: Sven Joachim via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]>
>> > 
>> > Kmscon (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/) is a simple
>> > terminal emulator based on Linux kernel mode setting. It is an attempt
>> > to replace the in-kernel VT implementation with a userspace console.
>> > 
>> > Starting with version 10.0.0, kmscon uses its own terminfo entry by
>> > default.  Although it supports 24-bit TrueColor mode, I found that
>> > M-x list-colors-display only lists eight colors.  The attached patch
>> > rectifies that, giving me the same colors as with TERM=xterm-direct.
>> 
>> Thanks, but could you please add a NEWS entry that calls out this
>> addition?
>
> I added a NEWS entry myself and installed the changes.

Thanks for doing so, and apologies for not having replied sooner.

Personally I think this change is not really NEWS worthy, for all it
does is change the output of list-colors-display.  I see it more as a
workaround for a deficiency in Emacs, there has been a lengthy previous
discussion in bug #69598 already (which I only learned about today).

Cheers,
       Sven