From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:51:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83sfzeddwf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <426d7c4d-a1fc-ba02-650e-e8c3259aacaa@inventati.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Manuel Uberti Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 12 14:53:22 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEAD4-0001Qk-3v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:53:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33274 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEAD1-0007h5-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEABl-0006vg-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEABl-0000qd-08; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1634 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEABk-00012Y-I9; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:52:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <426d7c4d-a1fc-ba02-650e-e8c3259aacaa@inventati.org> (message from Manuel Uberti on Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:42:29 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272353 Archived-At: > From: Manuel Uberti > Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:42:29 +0200 > > > I hear quite a few people run at least two instances of Emacs, for > > example if they don't want Gnus fetching new articles and email to > > freeze the interactive session for prolonged times. And there can > be other > similar reasons to do the same. > > > > We don't automatically make new options be the default unless the > > old behavior makes absolutely no sense or is otherwise dangerous or > not > useful. I don't see this case matching any of that, so IMO we > > shouldn't make this behavior the default right away. > > > > Does anyone else have an opinion on this aspect? > > Sorry if I did not follow this thread before and ended up opening bug #49505. As > stated there, if possible I'd like to keep the old behaviour on left-click (new > Emacs instance) and offering an 'Emacs (client)' option on right-click. Needless to say, I agree with you, but other opinions prevailed. Hopefully, it isn't too late to correct that in some way.