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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: status icon support
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:10:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ve5wgwol.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JET5L-0003Z9-Dk@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 14 Jan 2008 12\:26\:55 -0500")

>>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

rms> We should not create a new data type for status icons unless there is
rms> a compelling reason for it -- that is to say, not making the data type
rms> would imply serious problems or ugliness.

rms> What is the motive for this data type?  Is it so as to handle X events
rms> for the icon?

There's no deep reason for it, it is just the approach I picked, by
analogy to frames and other programming languages, where adding new
types is unexceptional.  I don't mind changing it to be a cons if that
is the preferred Emacs way.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 23:28 RFC: status icon support Tom Tromey
2008-01-12  1:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-12  1:28   ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-12  1:38   ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-12  8:45     ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-01-12 17:45       ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-14  2:01         ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-14  1:35           ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-14 17:26             ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-19  5:18               ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-20  6:14                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-23  4:00                   ` Michael Olson
2008-01-14  1:41           ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-14  1:03     ` Michael Olson
2008-01-14  1:01       ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-14  7:03         ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-15  6:01         ` Michael Olson
2008-01-16  1:10           ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-16  4:10             ` Michael Olson
2008-01-12 11:11   ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-12 11:25     ` David Kastrup
2008-01-12 11:27       ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-12 11:46         ` David Kastrup
2008-01-12 14:10           ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-12 14:19             ` David Kastrup
2008-01-12 17:33               ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-14  2:00               ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-14  2:25                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-14  7:05                 ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-12 13:52     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-12 14:13       ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-12 14:26         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-12 17:36           ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-12 18:59             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-12 14:33         ` David Kastrup
2008-01-12 17:45           ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-12 18:07             ` David Kastrup
2008-01-12 18:16               ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-14  2:01           ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-14  2:47             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-14 17:26               ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-14  9:14             ` David Kastrup
2008-01-14 17:26               ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-14  3:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-01-14  3:49   ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-14 13:35     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-14 21:40     ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-01-16  1:17       ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-16 11:55         ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-01-14 17:26   ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-14 17:10     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2008-01-16  2:42       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-30 19:56 Tom Tromey
2007-12-31 17:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-31 18:29   ` Tom Tromey

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