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24.3.50; desktop-restore-frames on NS does not work

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Message #31 received at 14765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14765: 24.3.50; desktop-restore-frames on NS does not work
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 20:59:11 +0200

Hello.

2 jul 2013 kl. 20:53 skrev Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> IIRC, at some not-so-distant point in the past, Emacs didn't accept
> tty and GUI frames on the same running instance.

I'm aware of that.  However, I would estimate a "multi-GUI" implementation to be at least an order of magnitude more difficult.  And that is not even before touching any Emacs code, just to get the toolkits to play nice is a huge undertaking.

	Jan D.

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