Re: Q: child frames on ttys

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:17:12 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> 
>  > (Background is of course that I'm trying to assess how much work is
>  > ahead, and if I want to do it :-).
> 
> I suppose that visibility and restacking of child frames and size
> changes of child frames and their ancestors are the corner issues.  Once
> these have been resolved, the code should be pushed and you should wait
> for user feedback.
> 
> Many thanks for lifting the "Note that child frames are meaningful on
> graphical terminals only." restriction, martin

Another feature to test with child frames on TTY displays is menus,
both from the menu bar and popup menus.

From where I stand, features that are perhaps hard to implement for
child frames on TTY displays could be documented as unsupported, and
could either do nothing or signal an error.  IOW, we don't have to
support everything on TTY frames in this regard, if doing so is
currently hard or impossible.  The feature, even if limited, is still
useful enough, from my POV.

Thanks.