bug#81580: 30.2; frame resizing does not work under KDE Plasma / Wayland

> From: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Bruno Haible <[email protected]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>,
>  [email protected], Rob Browning <[email protected]>,
>  [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:27:59 +0100
> 
> Johan Myréen [08/Aug  9:48pm +03] wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 at 19:59, martin rudalics <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>  > 'emacs' is a "metapackage" [1][2]. The question is thus: Why does, in a
> >>  > Kubuntu environment, 'sudo apt install emacs' install the emacs-gtk
> >> package,
> >>  > when the emacs-pgtk package would be better suited?
> >>
> >> Johan Myréen has repeatedly asked for such a step in the past.  But this
> >> is a desktop issue.  I never install emacs as a package but on xfce/xfwm
> >> I would strongly oppose having the PGTK build as default.
> >
> >
> > I see this as a Linux distribution issue. The major distributions (Ubuntu,
> > Fedora, Debian) default to Wayland in their newest versions, and are in the
> > process of dropping the X11 session altogether. On these distributions I
> > think it would make sense to make the PGTK version the default. On the
> > other hand, on distros like Mint and other distros using X11 window
> > managers, the PGTK version should not be offered by default, or preferably
> > not at all.
> >
> > This is of course up to the distro makers to decide, and we can only give
> > recommendations.
> 
> I don't maintain Emacs in Debian anymore.
> 
> I agree that if GNOME and KDE both default to Wayland, the emacs-pgtk
> package ought to be the default variant installed by the metapackage.

Thanks to all who participated and contributed valuable information
about this issue.  I've now added an item about this to PROBLEMS, and
I'm therefore closing this bug.