Re: Fiddling with the menus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Riley <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:05:51 +0200
> 
> > These settings are already in a second-level menu, so how can they
> > possibly bother anyone?  Just because Xah doesn't see any use for
> > them, it doesn't mean others won't.  When I work on a laptop, I have
> 
> Then turn them on. Most people have a desktop clock already
> configured. Seems obvious enough.
> 
> > the Battery display on all the time, because Emacs lets me customize
> > that display in ways most OSes never will.  As for Time, why should I
> 
> Then turn it on for laptops. More specifically yours. Most of us have a
> system battery monitor.
> 
> > move my eyes to the system's display, somewhere on the fringes of the
> > screen, just to know what time it is?
> 
> And why should everyone else have their emacs modeline infested with
> unnecessary stuff when they have the GUI properly configured.

Hey, we are not talking about turning them on!  We are talking about
whether they are important enough to be in the menu.  If someone
doesn't want their modeline infested, they are free not to turn them
on.  Puff! problem's gone.