Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:20:32 +0100
>> 
>> > What's wrong with Options->Save Options?
>> 
>> Nothing, except that people have been conditioned to expect that
>> changes in options get saved automatically, so we could do that for
>> them if they make the changes via the menus.
>
> Not sure I'd like it: it would make it harder to try an option without
> committing to using it.
>

Yes, but as I said: itʼs what people have been conditioned to
expect. Or we could limit it to only visual things like
toolbars,scrollbars etc.

>> On a related note, perhaps 'save options' should be the last entry
>> in the Options menu, to make it stand out more.
>
> Its current place is what it is because the items below it don't
> belong to "Options" saved by "Save Options".  We could add some
> delimiter to make that more evident, but it isn't like the place is
> random or not well thought of.

I guess we could add another separator above it.

Robert