Re: XEmacs opinion for preview-latex required...

David> Steve Youngs <steve(a)sxemacs.org&gt; writes: This is imprecise. The frame decoration is under control of the window manager, but there are at least two ways in X to bypass the window manager completely, and of course there is a protocol by which the application may request specific decorations. This issue came up at the time of the 21.4 release, nobody cared to fix it then, and it looks like nobody cares to fix it now. I'll try to take a look this week and if it can be done from Lisp I'll fix it. If it can't, it wouldn't get into 21.4 most likely anyway. David> The question was whether there exist suggestions or David> conventions or experiences about whether modes supporting David> balloon help should actively enable the help or leave the David> fingers off it until the user explicitly requests it. My intuition is that unless the user goes to the trouble of setting the frame decorations to minimum via the window manager, the frame decorations and focus switch are so distracting that that they violate th eprinciple of least astonishment. Leave them off IMO. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.