Re: [ELPA] New package: activities

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:53:21 +0000
> 
> As a very (and I do mean very) long time user, I would like to comment
> on this thread.  I hope that's okay despite the fact that I do not
> contribute much to the actual code in emacs.
> 
> I have never found desktop.el to be useful.  I do not start emacs from
> different directories so find the whole idea of a desktop counter to my
> use case.  I start emacs and then use it for days, working on different
> completely unrelated projects or activities (teaching, coding, writing,
> admin, email, whatever).  Emacs, these days, is usually also my window
> manager (exwm).
> 
> The proposed activities package (which I have not yet had time to try)
> appeals, given its description.  And that appeal would increase further
> were it integrated or linked with project.el as the latter is more
> sympathetic with how I use emacs.  I'm sure I'm not the only one that
> works this way.  The power of Emacs is that it works for so many
> different people and allows one to use it the way you want it, not the
> other way around.
> 
> Building on top of desktop.el seems, to me, to be using the wrong
> starting point.

If you don't consider desktop.el useful and don't use it, then,
indeed, whether activities.el is a compatible extension of desktop.el
or a completely new package developed from ground up on a different
basis should be of no importance for you.  My worries are for people
who do use desktop.el and might also be interested in the features
offered by activities.el that are not currently present in desktop.el.