Re: desktop-restore-frames

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:54 AM, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd kill all frames but one.  `desktop-clear' means to start from a
> pristine state and one minibuffer-equipped frame showing *scratch* is
> the best approximation we have.

Well, yes, sure (one, or two if using a minibufferless /
minibuffer-only setup). But my point is that desktop-clear allows the
user to set up buffers s/he doesn't want to "clear", so perhaps it
makes sense todo the same with frames. OTOH, perhaps not, and just
going for the easy kill-them-all, Simon de Monfort's style.

> I suppose we want to make sure the window selected when saving should be
> selected after restoring (unless it's a minibuffer window).

Yes.

> IIUC we'd have to fix a couple of errors in the Emacs sources to make it
> work so I would advise against trying to make it backward compatible.

OK.

> It has the advantage that we can save "something like" registered frame
> configurations to disk and read them back.

That, and also that it restores "dead" frames.

    J