From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:52:14 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ekzmsdjs.fsf@emacswiki.org> <3F3DDDF3.4090500@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061182668 13107 80.91.224.253 (18 Aug 2003 04:57:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 04:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, alex@emacswiki.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 06:57:46 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19oc5S-0004Wo-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 06:57:46 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19oc7g-0008Jr-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19oc3k-0006m0-PH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19oc2t-0006Rp-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19oc2L-0006AL-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19oc2L-0006A1-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19oc06-0007mv-7G; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:52:14 -0400 Original-To: Lars Hansen In-reply-to: <3F3DDDF3.4090500@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:32:03 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15997 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15997 > (desktop-load-default) > (desktop-read) > (setq desktop-enable t) > > To me this sound as the best solution because it is simpler. It is simple, but inconvenient for the user. Is there any situation in which the user benefits from having desktop-enable be nil? Do users want that mode of operation? If not, we could just make desktop-enable t by default. Why not?