GNU bug report logs - #10670
`fullscreen' frame parameter ill-named

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:53:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 10670 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 10670 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10670: `fullscreen' frame parameter ill-named
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:57:34 -0500

>> Right, WM now claimed "maximized" as their own term as well, indeed,
>> after doing the same for "fullscreen".  So if we want to change the
>> current misleading nomenclature and try to be futureproof we should use
>> a parameter name that sounds unlike any word a sane WM designer will
>> want to use for anything.
>>
>> Maybe `use-of-screen-real-estate-status`?
>
> `embiggeningness'.

You got my vote!


        Stefan
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