Re: Q: child frames on ttys

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:17:12 +0200
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
>> 
>>  > (Background is of course that I'm trying to assess how much work is
>>  > ahead, and if I want to do it :-).
>> 
>> I suppose that visibility and restacking of child frames and size
>> changes of child frames and their ancestors are the corner issues.  Once
>> these have been resolved, the code should be pushed and you should wait
>> for user feedback.
>> 
>> Many thanks for lifting the "Note that child frames are meaningful on
>> graphical terminals only." restriction, martin
>
> Another feature to test with child frames on TTY displays is menus,
> both from the menu bar and popup menus.

Yes, thanks for the hint. Also, dialogs are probably also affected in
some way.

> From where I stand, features that are perhaps hard to implement for
> child frames on TTY displays could be documented as unsupported, and
> could either do nothing or signal an error.  IOW, we don't have to
> support everything on TTY frames in this regard, if doing so is
> currently hard or impossible.  The feature, even if limited, is still
> useful enough, from my POV.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.