Subject: Re: bug#62164: 29.0.60; ediff behaves poorly by default on tiling window managers

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 22:15:50 +0300

> Cc: Po Lu <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> From: Spencer Baugh <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 14:27:11 -0400
> 
> +(defcustom ediff-x-utility-control-frame nil
> +  "If non-nil, the control frame is a utility window under X.
> +
> +This is useful in tiling window managers, where this will cause
> +the control frame to be floating rather than tiled.  It should be
> +harmless on other well-behaved window managers."

If this option causes the control frame to be floating rather than
tiled, the name of the option should reflect that.  Using "utility" in
the name of the variable makes the option less self-explanatory,
because that technical terms is not relevant on the user level.

Thanks.