RE: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r100650: Change default-frame-alist and menu/tool-bar-mode interaction (Bug#2249).

[Drew Adams]

>  Change default-frame-alist and menu/tool-bar-mode 
> interaction (Bug#2249).  Don't add entries for `menu-bar-lines'
> and `tool-bar-lines' to `default-frame-alist' and
> `initial-frame-alist' at startup.  Instead, use X resources
> to update the `menu-bar-mode' and `tool-bar-mode' variables
> at startup, and use them as defaults during frame creation.

I haven't followed this and cannot check the new effect.  But I hope this does
not mean that a user's customizations of, say, `default-frame-alist' will no
longer be respected wrt `menu-bar-lines' and `tool-bar-lines'.

When you say "use X resources", do you mean that Emacs now sets X resources or
only that users can use X resources to set these parameters? (You say "use X
resources" the same way you say "don't add entries", so it's unclear what the
subject of the sentence is: Emacs code or the user.)

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FWIW: Over the past few major releases there has been considerable fiddling with
initial menu-bar and tool-bar settings and how they're established. I hope this
will settle down and reach a fixed point. ;-)  As an example, I have code that
fits the frame to a buffer, and it has to calculate the frame height differently
for different Emacs versions, because of the different treatment of these
parameters.