Subject: Re: bug#49997: 27.2; idle-time reset when switching desktop-page

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:43:38 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:19:06 +0200
> 
>  > Btw, idleness is not the only feature related to this gray area:
>  > there's also while-no-input, input-pending-p, and throw-on-input, to
>  > mention a few.  Should these be in sync?
> 
> Here we have
> 
> (setq while-no-input-ignore-events
>        '(focus-in focus-out help-echo iconify-frame
>          make-frame-visible selection-request))
> 
> so this set and the above are certainly not "in sync".
> 
> But I have no idea how these two sets are supposed to interact and
> whether and how they should be presented to users.

If we end up with a list of ignored events, as I think we should, we
should consider making the same list control all of the relevant
features.