bug#14326: 24.3; Conflict of w32-send-sys-command and set-default-font

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <rudalics@gmx.at>, <eenliu@gmail.com>, <14326@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 09:26:16 -0700
> 
> > > Is the intention that one cannot change the size, once a frame has
> > > been maximized (without first unmaximizing it)?
> > 
> > There's no such intention.  What Martin is arguing (I think) was that
> > in a maximized frame, set-default-font should alway behave as if its
> > 2nd argument were non-nil.
> 
> Why should it?
> 
> Especially given the statement that there is no intention that one must
> unmaximize a frame before changing its size.
> 
> If we impose such a behavior for `set-default-font' then it means that in that
> case there _is_ such an intention: one would need to unmaximize the frame 
> first,
> before using `set-default-font' with nil KEEP-SIZE, to make a nil KEEP-SIZE
> value (the default!) be respected.  Why such an exception?

Because the frame is maximized.

Let me turn the table and ask you: why would you want to have the
frame resized just because you changed the font?