From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-29 b44a7ff85dc: Allow 'icon-title-format' to have the value t
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:02:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cwboydd.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83pma3tdvo.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Then, we have a problem with terminology: "iconify" is a word that is
>> rarely used since decades ago, the current term is "minimize", so most
>> new users will not understand what icon-title-format is about from its
>> documentation.
>
> There's nothing we can do here. This terminology is everywhere in
> Emacs, both in documentation and in names of commands and variables.
> The node "Visibility of Frames" explains the terminology, and mentions
> the "minimized" alternative; it also has index entries to that effect.
Ok.
What about the other part on my message? The current explanation for
having `t' in icon-frame-title should be removed. OTOH, maybe we could
explain that icon-frame-title it is effective in cases where the user
does not explicitly iconify the frame, as when he moves to another
virtual desktop.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-21 15:02 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20230217074148.2E130C1391A@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2023-02-20 20:57 ` emacs-29 b44a7ff85dc: Allow 'icon-title-format' to have the value t Óscar Fuentes
2023-02-21 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-21 15:02 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2023-02-21 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-21 18:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-02-21 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-21 19:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-02-22 14:35 ` Po Lu
2023-02-22 15:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
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