Preserving window layout?

[Alan Schmitt]

Hi,

I'm trying to work in a single Emacs frame, split in several windows,
but this does not work well with gnus. Reading the documentation, I see
that there is an option to prevent gnus from taking over the frame
(http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_288.html), but its use is discouraged.

Hence my question: has anyone found a way to use gnus without losing an
existing windows layout? I saw some discussion on emacswiki
(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OneWindow) and I'm wondering if there
are other tricks that I may have missed.

Thanks a lot,

Alan