Re: suggested feature -- console-mode frame title sets Xterm title

[Martin Pool]

On 14 Oct 2003, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>     I've thought about this and I can't think of a completely satisfactory
>     way to reconcile the differences between window-system and text frames
>     in the existing documented behaviour.
> 
> A frame has a name field and a title field.
> select-frame-by-name uses the name field.
> Can't this feature operate in a way that avoids
> changing the name field?

The code uses the name and title fields inconsistently.  In
particular, frame-title-format actually sets the f->name field, which
is copied by x_set_title() into the f->title.

We could clean it up but I didn't originally want to make such a large
change.

> Adding a new field to the frame structure is ok.
> Can you solve it that way?

I think so.

-- 
Martin