Re: desktop-auto-save-timeout

[martin rudalics]

> I realized now that the right way to implement the desktop auto-saving
> is to activate an idle timer only on changes in the window configuration
> by window-configuration-change-hook.
>
> The desktop file is mostly about remembering a list of buffers and
> windows.  There is no point in auto-saving each time point moves.
> This is what web browsers do by auto-saving a list of tabs
> only when you open/close a tab.

Agreed.  We might lose some window-points and some buffers that have not
been displayed yet in that case but this is no great harm.

martin