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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 37594@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37594: Menu rearrangement
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:20:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837e1q335z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h80vdj58.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 17 Jan 2020 02:24:51 +0200)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 37594@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 02:24:51 +0200
> 
> > Fine with me, but "Save Sessions" is not the right title for this
> > feature.  Something like "Save Emacs State" or "Save Desktop", I
> > think.
> 
> Referring to Desktop is what I tried to avoid in the menu.
> The name Desktop says nothing to the user who doesn't know
> that the package name is desktop.el.

Using a word that happens to be the package name does have its
advantages.

> The Info node name describing this feature is named
> "Saving Emacs Sessions", this is why "Save Session"
> makes sense.

the Info node has the whole node to explain what "saving an Emacs
session" means in this context.  The menu item doesn't have that
luxury.

> Also the same node says: "save the state of Emacs",
> so maybe a good name would be "Save State between Sessions"

Fine with me, thanks.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-17  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-02 21:27 bug#37594: Menu rearrangement Juri Linkov
2019-10-03 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 22:43   ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-04  7:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-27 22:36       ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-15  0:04         ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-15 16:14           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-15 23:30             ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-16 14:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                 ` <87h80vdj58.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
2020-01-17  8:20                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-20  0:15                     ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-20 17:11                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 23:10                         ` Juri Linkov

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