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Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: GUI X-FreeDesktop integration
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:51:44 +0300

> From: Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:42:29 +0200
> 
>  > I hear quite a few people run at least two instances of Emacs, for
>  > example if they don't want Gnus fetching new articles and email to
>  > freeze the interactive session for prolonged times.  And there can > be 
> other 
> similar reasons to do the same.
>  >
>  > We don't automatically make new options be the default unless the
>  > old behavior makes absolutely no sense or is otherwise dangerous or > not 
> useful.  I don't see this case matching any of that, so IMO we
>  > shouldn't make this behavior the default right away.
>  >
>  > Does anyone else have an opinion on this aspect?
> 
> Sorry if I did not follow this thread before and ended up opening bug #49505. 
> As 
> stated there, if possible I'd like to keep the old behaviour on left-click 
> (new 
> Emacs instance) and offering an 'Emacs (client)' option on right-click.

Needless to say, I agree with you, but other opinions prevailed.
Hopefully, it isn't too late to correct that in some way.



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