From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change to `use-dialog-box-p'
Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 15:38:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6s7rxcz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87353r2qwm.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 20 May 2023 19:17:29 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 19:17:29 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Restack how? with what commands or gestures?
>
> By clicking that other window. It's maximized, so it fills the whole
> screen and obscures Emacs.
>
> > Why would Emacs pop up a GUI dialog by default in this situation?
> > IOW, what would be the reason for us to show a GUI dialog, which
>
> To alert him that Emacs has finished starting up.
>
> > requires the user to use the mouse?
>
> Not necessarily; typing RET also confirms the dialog.
On what OS?
Anyway, I see no reason to change the current behavior due to this
scenario and similar ones. Emacs didn't see any mouse-related input,
so it has no reason to prefer GUI dialogs. We will surprise and annoy
users if we do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-20 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87o7mf3em6.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-05-20 2:45 ` Change to `use-dialog-box-p' Po Lu
2023-05-20 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 6:29 ` Po Lu
2023-05-20 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 8:32 ` Po Lu
2023-05-20 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 11:17 ` Po Lu
2023-05-20 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-05-21 0:47 ` Po Lu
2023-05-21 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21 6:41 ` Po Lu
2023-05-21 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-22 5:33 Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez
2023-05-22 9:27 ` Po Lu
2023-05-22 10:17 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-05-22 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-23 1:39 Samuel Wales
2023-05-23 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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