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Subject: Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs"
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> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:09:08 -0700
> 
> The suggestion is to change it to:
> 
>     (setq frame-title-format "%b - GNU Emacs")
> 
> Alternatively, I think one could also reasonably choose:
> 
>     (setq frame-title-format
>           '(multiple-frames "%b"
>                             ("%b - GNU Emacs")))
> 
> I personally think it makes sense to just do what other modern software
> does here, but Eli felt that we need more opinions before making any
> changes.

I'd actually encourage people to think what would be useful to show
there, not necessarily how to follow others' suit.  What does this
addition add to the information displayed on the GUI terminal, and how
will it be useful -- that's the kind of arguments that I hoped to see.

But feel free to ignore me if "doing like others" sounds like a good
enough reason.