GNU bug report logs - #1754
23.0.60; tool-bar is shown with tool-bar-mode off

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:25:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1754 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Subject: bug#1754: 23.0.60; tool-bar is shown with tool-bar-mode off
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:57:23 -0500

>> The problem is that tool-bar-mode, and menu-bar-mode and too coarse:
>> they offer no way for the user to say whether he wants it to apply to
>> every single frame, or only to those currently displayed, or only the
>> current one, or only those on the current terminal, ...
>> 
>> Also, making them work right would probably require keeping track for
>> each and ever frame of where its parameters came from.  So tool-bar-mode
>> could just set default-frame-alist and then "refresh" every
>> frame's parameters.

> Isn't that a good general structure for all kinds of local/global settings?

Yes, I think so.  Not that it's easy to do, tho.


        Stefan
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