Subject: bug#29972: 25.3; dired-hide-details-mode does not persist in desktop session

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:16:17 +0200

> From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:02:21 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Actually I would question why we have minor modes not added to minor-mode-alist at all just because both
> lighter and keymap are missing.

Because minor-mode-alist is for displaying an indication of a minor
mode in the mode line?

> What do you think about changing define-minor-mode?

IMO, a better idea is to find out why desktop.el requires a minor mode
to be in minor-mode-alist before it saves it.  Is there really a
justification for that?