Subject: Re: bug#12406: 24.2.50; frame parameter `menu-bar-lines' and `menu-bar-mode'

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:08:33 +0200

>> IMHO it should update a frame iff that frame has no `menu-bar-lines'
 >> frame parameter.'
 >
 > Why?  Why shouldn't a user be ABLE to turn on/off showing the menu bar in all
 > existing frames?

Because this way we'd have a consistent interface: The presence of a
frame parameter would signal "leave this frame alone".

 > One way or the other, we should find ways for users to alternatively easily do
 > that (affecting all existing frames) OR protect some frames from that toggling.

Do you have a practical use case where my proposal harms?

martin