Re: How to restore the layout?

[martin rudalics]

>> I'm afraid there's no other way round.  We could save a pointer to a
>> frame instead which then must either be or have a minibuffer window and
>> reconstruct the value from that which would be yet a bit more messy.
>
> Let's wait and see whether that's really necessary.

Good.  We can always add that later on.

>> We'd still have to translate buffer objects to buffer names when saving
>> and convert them back when restoring states plus remove any buffers
>> found dead by `desktop-restore-file-buffer'.
>
> For frames buffer-lists, I can do that quite easily. For windows
> buffer-lists, you'd have to do that in the window-store-(get|put) or
> provide some kind of hook to do it afterwards. It is really worth it?
> All this save&restore does not really restore the full Emacs session
> you were before. Hmm.

That's why so far I didn't consider buffer lists in `window-state-get'.
I hope we can disregard them.

martin