Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Arthur Miller]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 11.09.2020 00:21, Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. 
> wrote:
>> I'm not a maintainer, but FWIW my opinion is that what will most likely 
>> happen
>> is that they will never agree to do this.  Menus are not "modern".
>
> That's certainly the current trend in Emacs customizations, but it's not a
> universal rule.
>
> VS Code has a traditional menu. Atom has a menu. Visual Studio and IntelliJ 
> IDEA
> of course have them too.
When I used to make money by programming VBA with MS Office and C++ with
VStudio I used to turn off all toolbars and menus I could. Back then
computer screens where much smaller then today, and even today I still
fight for vertical screen estate on my computer.

For that reason, on my home computer I run a WM without decorations, Emacs
without any gui elements more then main gui window, Firefox & Gimp with
menus and gui hidden etc. I have never used IntellliJ software, but I
guess they will give you option to maximize the working area by
disabling the gui items too.

Anyway, I don't think GUI should be disabled by default; that should be left to
the user. I am really curious which distro you run :-)?