From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 37594@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37594: Menu rearrangement
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:20:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837e1q335z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h80vdj58.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 17 Jan 2020 02:24:51 +0200)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 37594@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 02:24:51 +0200
>
> > Fine with me, but "Save Sessions" is not the right title for this
> > feature. Something like "Save Emacs State" or "Save Desktop", I
> > think.
>
> Referring to Desktop is what I tried to avoid in the menu.
> The name Desktop says nothing to the user who doesn't know
> that the package name is desktop.el.
Using a word that happens to be the package name does have its
advantages.
> The Info node name describing this feature is named
> "Saving Emacs Sessions", this is why "Save Session"
> makes sense.
the Info node has the whole node to explain what "saving an Emacs
session" means in this context. The menu item doesn't have that
luxury.
> Also the same node says: "save the state of Emacs",
> so maybe a good name would be "Save State between Sessions"
Fine with me, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-17 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-02 21:27 bug#37594: Menu rearrangement Juri Linkov
2019-10-03 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 22:43 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-04 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-27 22:36 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-15 0:04 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-15 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-15 23:30 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-16 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87h80vdj58.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
2020-01-17 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-20 0:15 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-20 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 23:10 ` Juri Linkov
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