bug#58634: Long delay with blank screen whilst loading desktop at emacs startup

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:40:32 +0000
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, 58634@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > I don't see any need for adding this.  Your case seems to be a rare
> > one, and doesn't justify such complications.
> 
> What is rare about my case?

That you see a blank frame.

> My current idea is to count the buffers in desktop-save, and to output a
> message:
> 
>     Restoring buffers: 127/166
> 
> as we restore the buffers.  We already count the buffers as we load
> them.

This will slow down the session restoration, so I'd rather avoid it.