Re: Annoying (frameset bug?): desktop-mode and maxmized frame

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:15:27 +0530
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I don't understand (or claim to understand) the technicalities.  Looks
> like there is a *very* tight coupling between the various entities when
> in fact they should be loosely associated.  May be NOT relying on
> existing infrastructure would give more flexibility.

This is not about infrastructure.  This is about the fact that
starting Emacs while bringing .emacs into effect is somewhat akin
bootstrapping: you cannot have some customizations take effect until
the objects they customize are created.  Frames are one of those
objects, but there are others.  This complication is one reason why we
have the abomination known as 'initial-frame-alist'.

If you look at startup.el, you will see that it sometimes performs the
same initializations more than once, for the same reason: user
customizations might have changed things half way through the startup.

So this is a general problem.  IIRC, a lot of research went at the
time into finding the best place for restoring frames.  Of course, if
you have concrete proposals that work, let's hear them.