Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[Thomas Lord]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 20:23 +0200, martin rudalics wrote:

>  > The four child frames around the edge of a normal
>  > frame, though - the four control panel areas - can
>  > have a nil configuration.  When they do, they are
>  > invisible, not reached by `next-frame', and don't
>  > appear in the frame list.
> 
> So why have them exist at all?  One can always recreate them.

So that they can have properties that persist
between periods of having non-nil window 
configurations.

-t