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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Tobias Bading <tbading@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 12:38:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s8h8re4emo1.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e6334ce-c9a3-2c58-d263-fa962f0c2f7d@web.de> (Tobias Bading's message of "Thu, 4 May 2023 06:03:07 +0200")

Tobias Bading <tbading@web.de> writes:

> On 04.05.23 02:12, Po Lu wrote:
>>>     The title of iconified or minimized frames is determined by
>>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> X does not use the term ``minimized''.  We prefer just
>> ``iconified''.
>
> I’m afraid “we” includes me — because I’m old. So old in fact that I
> (barely) remember mwm being able to turn top-level windows into icons
> and back. Those were the days… ;-)
>
> But I don’t actually remember the last window manager I used that used
> this
> feature. Might actually have been mwm. The last decade or so GNOME 2
> and
> then MATE minimized my windows into the Window List panel applet. So I
> can
> see the window’s title changing when it is minimized or restored,
> which is a
> rather uncommon “feature” in this desktop environment.
>
> PS: there’s also “shaded” these days… :-p

These are all reported under the Iconic state, and as such that is the
terminology we use in Emacs.

So let's please not use the term "minimize".  Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-04  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-03 18:40 icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496) Tobias Bading
2023-05-03 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-03 19:10   ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-04  0:12 ` Po Lu
2023-05-04  4:03   ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-04  4:38     ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-05-04  4:46       ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-04  4:59         ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-04 14:51       ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-05-04 16:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-04 16:37           ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-05-04 17:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05  0:15         ` Po Lu
2023-05-05  1:02           ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-05-05  4:44             ` tomas
2023-05-05  5:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05  7:28                 ` tomas
2023-05-05 10:39                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05  5:24             ` Po Lu
2023-05-05  5:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05 10:40 ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-05 11:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05 11:00   ` Po Lu
2023-05-05 11:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05 12:29       ` Po Lu
2023-05-05 13:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05 23:52           ` Po Lu
2023-05-06  6:27             ` Eli Zaretskii

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