GNU bug report logs - #37594
Menu rearrangement

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Message #35 received at 37594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 37594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37594: Menu rearrangement
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:20:08 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: 37594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 02:24:51 +0200
> 
> > Fine with me, but "Save Sessions" is not the right title for this
> > feature.  Something like "Save Emacs State" or "Save Desktop", I
> > think.
> 
> Referring to Desktop is what I tried to avoid in the menu.
> The name Desktop says nothing to the user who doesn't know
> that the package name is desktop.el.

Using a word that happens to be the package name does have its
advantages.

> The Info node name describing this feature is named
> "Saving Emacs Sessions", this is why "Save Session"
> makes sense.

the Info node has the whole node to explain what "saving an Emacs
session" means in this context.  The menu item doesn't have that
luxury.

> Also the same node says: "save the state of Emacs",
> so maybe a good name would be "Save State between Sessions"

Fine with me, thanks.

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