From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: 61496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61496: 30.0.50; Default value of icon-title-format
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:02:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg9hqflv.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
AFAIK icon-title-format was broken since long time ago (possibly for
several major releases) and it was fixed recently.
I propose that its default value should be nil, and interpret that value
as "same as frame-title-format". That's why:
1. The case of having an specific frame title when it is iconified seems
to me as way less frequent than expecting that the frame keeps the
same title.
2. After upgrading to Emacs 29, users that set frame-title-format will
see how frames change their title when iconified.
3. There are mechanisms for applying settings or performing actions
depending on the title of a frame (KDE Window Rules and scripts based
on xdotool, for instance.) For keeping those mechanisms on a working
state with Emacs 29, the user must ensure that either it keeps
icon-title-format synced with frame-title-format and/or his scripts
must be adapted. Without that, any config that depends on the
content's of the frame title will be broken (unless the user already
set icon-title-format, but it would be surprising if he did, as that
setting had no effect until now.)
Having a working icon-title-format, in practice, is a new feature, so
defining a new default for it shouldn't have any impact. Certainly, it
will not have a visible effect compared to recent Emacs releases.
However, keeping its current default value may cause confusion and
breakage for any user that sets frame-title-format on his config.
The required change in code is simple enough:
src/xdisp.c | 3 ++-
modified src/xdisp.c
@@ -13424,7 +13424,8 @@ gui_consider_frame_title (Lisp_Object frame)
Fselect_window (f->selected_window, Qt);
set_buffer_internal_1 (XBUFFER (XWINDOW (f->selected_window)->contents));
- fmt = FRAME_ICONIFIED_P (f) ? Vicon_title_format : Vframe_title_format;
+ fmt = FRAME_ICONIFIED_P (f) && !NILP (Vicon_title_format) ?
+ Vicon_title_format : Vframe_title_format;
mode_line_target = MODE_LINE_TITLE;
title_start = MODE_LINE_NOPROP_LEN (0);
... plus a trivial doc change on its DEFVAR_LISP and initialization.
If this proposal is acceptable, it should be applied to Emacs 29, to
avoid putting ourselves on a similar scenario when Emacs 30 is released.
next reply other threads:[~2023-02-14 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-14 0:02 Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2023-02-14 9:20 ` bug#61496: 30.0.50; Default value of icon-title-format Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-14 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 13:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-02-14 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 14:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-14 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 14:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-02-14 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87o7pto9zb.fsf@bernoul.li>
2023-02-16 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-16 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 1:10 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-02-17 2:47 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-17 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 14:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
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