We can quibble about the proportion of users, as well as how well it does all these things till the heat death of the universe.

The point is that if Emacs ships with an image viewer, it makes sense for that to be the default. If KDE comes with an image viewer, you would expect it to be the default - even if it sucks. Ditto anything on a Mac/iPhone.

> Emacs is bad at lots of things and that's okay.

It's also OK to have it as the default. Emacs usage is not shrinking, and they're OK sticking to their philosophy as long as it doesn't impede future development (it doesn't, as the last 20 years have shown).

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stackghost 3 days ago | parent [-]

>The point is that if Emacs ships with an image viewer, it makes sense for that to be the default.

If, and only if, the user has emacs set in xdg as the preferred image viewer, then I agree.

	▲	BeetleB 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is a pointless discussion, with a significant number of users wanting each side. It's also a silly discussion given that Emacs is perhaps the most configurable software on the planet. Personally, on multiple occasions, I've been frustrated when upgrading some (non-Emacs) SW and have it behave differently because they suddenly decided to make using xdg the default and then having to waste time finding a way to revert that behavior. This isn't a problem unique to Emacs. I'm sure if Emacs seriously started losing lots of users, they'll change the defaults to attract some. Until then, the developers (and most chronic users) simply don't care.