Re: desktop.el and minor modes

[Lars Hansen <larsh@math.ku.dk>]

Juri Linkov wrote:

>desktop.el saves variable names to the minor-modes slot of
>`desktop-create-buffer', but those variables can't be funcalled
>when desktop is restored.
>
The conventions for minor modes is that the same symbol should be used 
for the mode variable as for the enabling function.
Those minor modes having a different name for the toggling function, 
should have be listed in desktop-minor-modes-table.

>Perhaps `desktop-save' should check if a symbol from
>`minor-mode-alist' is a function in case if there is no corresponding
>variable-to-function mapping in `desktop-minor-mode-table'?
>
When desktop restores a buffer, it checks if there is a function 
definition for each symbol in desktop-buffer-minor-modes before calling it.
I don't see why doing this check at desktop-save should be better.

The problem with dired-omit-files-p is that it does not follow the 
conventions.
Rather than hacking desktop to work around this, I think dired-x should 
be changed.
The result is much cleaner.

I suggest something like:
1. Rename variable dired-omit-files-p to dired-omit-mode
2. Replace function dired-omit-toggle with functions
   - dired-omit-mode following the convention for the argument
   - dired-mark-omit marking files to omit