Re: a little feedback on Cocoa Emacs.app

[Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:

>
> On Aug 4, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Ken Raeburn wrote:
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>> On Aug 4, 2008, at 08:50, Adrian Robert wrote:
>>>> When you say "one-element", you mean it adds the one element to  
>>>> the existing standard dock menu provided by the system, or it  
>>>> replaces it?  I'd prefer adding..
>>>
>> It appears that the items of the menu you define get slipped in  
>> between the list of windows and the standard set of actions in the  
>> menu that pops up.
>
> Cool.  I'll rework the patch a little bit (see Yamamoto-san's post)  
> and apply it, maybe tomorrow.

This is in.  Thanks.  Have you signed copyright assignment papers with  
FSF?  I can take this patch without them, but anything else will put  
you over the limit..



>>>> Using the keyboard commands to delete a frame get that result;  
>>>> clicking on buttons with the mouse can make the application go  
>>>> away.
>>>
>>> This sounds like a bug.  Shouldn't it have the same behavior  
>>> regardless of whether close from mouse or keyboard?
>>
>> I'm comfortable enough with the way things have worked for a while  
>> that this doesn't seem like an issue to me.  The lack of  
>> consistency of the new Mac UI with the way the rest of it works  
>> does, though.  (Well, I haven't checked the Windows version.)
>> If you want to argue that all window-system versions should behave  
>> the way the Cocoa port does now, go for it.  But unless/until you  
>> win that argument, I think the Cocoa port should change.
>
> Sure, the X interface is the prototype we follow.  But does the  
> different behavior when kb or mouse to close window seem right to  
> you?  Is there some reason for it you can think of?  I just want to  
> make sure because it seems strange, and like I say NS port has no  
> specific code handling this right now (should be generic behavior  
> that is seen).  (BTW, are you using GTK or non-GTK X?)

Actually I stand corrected on one point -- the NS port did have some  
code shortcircuiting delete-frame request when <= 1 frame left.  I  
took this out.  I'm not happy about it because the behavior now seems  
like a bug as I say, but no one else is speaking up so I'll not worry  
about it for now.

Also, regarding your report about the dialog appearing when you select  
Quit from dock menu, it's still there, but I fixed a bug in some  
cleanup changes of Jul 17 that was causing dialogs to fail.