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#14765
24.3.50; desktop-restore-frames on NS does not work
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Reported by: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:22:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.3.50
Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #25 received at 14765-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Fixed in trunk.
Jan D.
2 jul 2013 kl. 20:09 skrev Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>:
> Hello.
>
> 2 jul 2013 kl. 19:38 skrev Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> wrote:
>>
>> Windows does not have display names either, so w32 functions that must
>> use or return a display name use "w32". I suggest you do the same and
>> use "ns" everywhere.
>
> But then a NS user must know that make-frame-on-display must have "ns" as argument.
> This is not documented anywhere (nor is the "w32" thing).
> I'd rather just accept anything.
>
>>
>>> The display-format-alist makes no sense. It is not like we can
>>> start a W32 or NS frame on an X-verson of Emacs or have any
>>> combination except X on X, W32 on W32 and NS on NS.
>>
>> There are X Server implementations for Windows. It could be
>> conceivable to have a Windows Emacs that could open "normal" (w32)
>> frames and X ones. It's just that nobody has implemented it.
>
> There are X server implementations for OSX also, but mixing X and NS (or X and W32) in the same binary is not easy, and AFAIK, nobody has done it for any application. Not to mention that Emacs itself is very hard to convert to a "multi-GUI" application. Having a display check for some theoretical future implementation which nobody has asked for and nobody is even considering, is just silly IMHO.
>
>>
>> Can we close this bug, then, or there's something more to do?
>
> I'll close it when I check in a fix.
>
> Jan D.
>
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