From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ns-win.el
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:35:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxq0yhzl.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1PAkiu-0004Z2-Ac@fencepost.gnu.org
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:42:00 -0400 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:08:16 -0500
>>
>> What if the "native" look is optional and off by default?
EZ> That'd be fine, IMO. We do that elsewhere. For example, ls-lisp.el
EZ> has a few options whose non-default values make Dired behave like
EZ> Windows file managers do.
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:27:33 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
SM> I think it's usually good to have Emacs follow the platform guidelines.
SM> It's also good to have Emacs be consistent across platforms. So there's
SM> sometimes a tension here. Moving the Spell menu seems like a good
SM> decision in this case. Maybe we could even resolve this difference by
SM> moving the Spell menu for all the platforms (this is a very weak
SM> suggestion: I rarely if ever use the menus, so I have no idea what would
SM> be a good change in this respect).
My suggestion (specifically on MacOS X, where user preferences are saved
in a consistent way and associated with the user account) is to ask once
on startup "do you want the native or the standard look?"
Then set a preference key accordingly and never ask the question again
as long as that key exists (but allow changing it in the Preferences
dialog). Changing the value only takes effect on restart.
This is IMHO the best compromise to improve usability for everyone on
the Mac OS X platform.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <jwvmxq4pez1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-24 2:02 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc Glenn Morris
2010-10-24 5:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-10-24 19:45 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 13:25 ` Adrian Robert
2010-10-25 14:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-10-26 2:59 ` ns-win.el [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.] Glenn Morris
2010-10-26 4:25 ` ns-win.el Glenn Morris
2010-10-26 4:54 ` ns-win.el CHENG Gao
2010-10-26 5:10 ` ns-win.el Adrian Robert
2010-10-26 15:18 ` ns-win.el Stefan Monnier
2010-10-26 5:07 ` ns-win.el [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.] Adrian Robert
2010-10-26 6:45 ` ns-win.el Glenn Morris
2010-10-26 7:47 ` ns-win.el Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-26 10:49 ` ns-win.el Adrian Robert
2010-10-26 15:27 ` ns-win.el Stefan Monnier
2010-10-26 19:25 ` ns-win.el Glenn Morris
2010-10-26 19:57 ` ns-win.el Adrian Robert
2010-10-26 6:50 ` ns-win.el Glenn Morris
2010-10-26 7:49 ` ns-win.el Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-26 13:08 ` ns-win.el Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-26 14:42 ` ns-win.el Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-26 17:35 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-10-26 7:32 ` ns-win.el Daniel Pittman
2010-10-24 7:55 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-24 19:47 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 4:56 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 8:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-25 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-28 3:54 ` moving x-select* [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.] Glenn Morris
2010-10-28 4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-28 5:32 ` Jason Rumney
2010-10-28 6:40 ` Chad Brown
2010-10-28 13:54 ` moving x-select* Jason Rumney
2010-10-28 15:28 ` Chad Brown
2010-10-28 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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