Because of long standing bugs and stability issues & an
uncollaborative upstream there has been talk on the emacs-devel
mailing list to switch the default toolkit to
Lucid (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-08/msg00752.html).
The GTK build also has issues with Xinput2, something that both we and
upstream want to enable by default in Emacs 29.
This situation has prompted me to use both Lucid an no-toolkit (pure X11) Emacs
as a daily driver in recent weeks to evaluate what the
advantages/drawbacks are and I have concluded that, at least for me,
switching the toolkit to Lucid is strictly an upgrade.
It has resulted in better stability (there are far fewer tiny UX
issues that are hard to understand/identify) & a snappier UI.
On top of that the closure size is reduced by ~10%.
In the pure X11 build I noticed some unsharpness around fonts so this
is not a good default choice.
As with everything there is a cost, and that is uglier (I think most
would agree but of course this is subjective) menu bars for
those that use them and no GTK scroll bars.
For anyone who still wants to use GTK they could of course still
choose to do so via the new `emacs-gtk` attribute but I think this
is a bad default.
A note to Wayland users:
This does not affect Wayland compatibility in any way since that will
already need a PGTK build variant in the future.
- Replace misleading docs.
- Add new assertions to let configurations make more sense.
- Add clusterInit flag.
- Add some more docs about HA and non-HA modes setup.
- Improve multi-node tests for HA mode.
Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/182085
This option is based on a recommendation from a page last updated in
2014 (see https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/), and it
is not necessary anymore.
Also, it did the wrong thing: it forced DRI2, but Glamor should also
work with DRI3, that is a better option most of the time. So let's
remove this option, folks that still want to force this manually can do
so in other ways.
Enable keter module
Keter is an apploader which:
1. has the old app running on a port.
2. loads a new one, and wait for that to complete
3. switches the old with the new one once the new one finished loading.
It supports more functionality but this use case
is the primary one being used by supercede.
Adds keter as a module to nixos.
Currently keter is unusable with nix,
because it relies on bundeling of a tar and uploading that to a specific folder.
These expressions automate these devops tasks,
with especially nixops in mind.
This will work with versions above 1.8
The test seems to work.
This uses a new version of keter which has good
support for status code on error pages.
We're using this config at production at supercede
so it should be fine.
Squash log:
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mention keter in changelog
Update generated release notes
Always restart keter on failure
This is a little bit of extra stability in case keter crashes.
Which can happen under extreme conditions (DoS attacks).
Update nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2205.section.md
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Update nixos/modules/module-list.nix
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Remove sanitization
don't put domain in as a string
Update nixos/tests/keter.nix
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add jappie as module maintainer
Use type path instead of two seperate options
Fix generated docs
added test machinery to figure out why it's failing
Fix the test, use console output
run nixpkgs-fmt on all modules
Inline config file.
This get's rid of a lot of inderection as well.
Run nix format
remove comment
simplify executable for test
delete config file
add config for keter root
Remove after redis clause
set keter root by default to /var/lib/keter
Update nixos/modules/services/web-servers/keter/default.nix
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Update nixos/modules/services/web-servers/keter/default.nix
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Update nixos/modules/services/web-servers/keter/default.nix
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fix nit
add newlines
add default text and move description in a long description
Delete rather obvious comment
fix release db thing
remove longDescription and put it in a comment instead
change description of mkEnalbeOption
explain what keter does by using the hackage synopsis
set domain to keterDomain and same for executable
move comment to where it's happening
fix type error
add formatting better comment
try add seperate user for keter
Revert "try add seperate user for keter"
This reverts commit d3522d36c96117335bfa072e6f453406c244e940.
Doing this breaks the setup
set default to avoid needing cap_net_bind_service
remove weird comment
use example fields
eleborated on process leakage
Update nixos/modules/services/web-servers/keter/default.nix
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run nixpkgs-fmt
update docs
Fix formatting, set keter package by default
format our little nixexpr
replace '' -> " where possible
drop indent for multiline string
make description much shorter
regen docs database
This was enabled by default in 18a7ce76fc
with the reason that it would be "useful regardless of the desktop
environment.", which I'm not arguing against.
The reason why this should not be enabled by default is that there are a
lot of systems that NixOS runs on that are not desktop systems.
Users on such systems most likely do not want or need this feature and
could even consider this an antifeature.
Furthermore, it is surprising to them to find out that they have this
enabled on their systems.
They might be even more surprised to find that they have polkit enabled
by default, which was a default that was flipped in
a813be071c. For some discussion as to why
see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/156858.
Evidently, this default is not only surprising to users, but also module
developers, as most if not all modules for desktop environments already
explicity set services.udisks2.enable = true; which they don't need to
right now.
