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Re: emacs-29 b44a7ff85dc: Allow 'icon-title-format' to have the value t


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: emacs-29 b44a7ff85dc: Allow 'icon-title-format' to have the value t
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:02:22 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Then, we have a problem with terminology: "iconify" is a word that is
>> rarely used since decades ago, the current term is "minimize", so most
>> new users will not understand what icon-title-format is about from its
>> documentation.
>
> There's nothing we can do here.  This terminology is everywhere in
> Emacs, both in documentation and in names of commands and variables.
> The node "Visibility of Frames" explains the terminology, and mentions
> the "minimized" alternative; it also has index entries to that effect.

Ok.

What about the other part on my message? The current explanation for
having `t' in icon-frame-title should be removed. OTOH, maybe we could
explain that icon-frame-title it is effective in cases where the user
does not explicitly iconify the frame, as when he moves to another
virtual desktop.




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