Re: [ELPA] New package: activities

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:59:42 -0600
> From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
> 
> I'd like to add a new package to ELPA, activities.el.  It's hosted at:
> 
>    https://github.com/alphapapa/activities.el
> 
> Here's the description; please see the readme/manual for more details.
> 
>    Inspired by Genera's and KDE's concepts of "activities", this library 
> allows the user to select an "activity", the loading of which restores a 
> window configuration and/or frameset, along with the buffers shown in 
> each window.  Saving an activity saves the state for later restoration. 
> Switching away from an activity saves the last-used state for later 
> switching back to, while still allowing the activity's initial or 
> default state to be restored on demand.  Resuming an activity loads the 
> last-used state, or the initial/default state when a universal argument 
> is provided.

From the user-facing POV, how is this different from desktop.el's
ability to save/restore Emacs sessions to/from separate desktop files?

Thanks.