Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com>
> Cc: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>, drew.adams@oracle.com,
>  self@gkayaalp.com, ghe@sdf.org, casouri@gmail.com, tecosaur@gmail.com,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:01:29 +0300
> 
> It appears that in Emacs we have the extra trouble of menu-bar-mode
> being one of the first things people disable, and some major ‘distros’
> like Spacemacs seem to disable them by default, so many people never
> even see it.  Also, FWIW, I just noticed the Options menu for the first
> time in my life, after reading Drew’s message, even though the menu bar
> has been sitting there before my eyes for years...
> 
> There was an idea in another thread that we could ask major distros to
> not disable menu bar, and I said I could create the issues, but I though
> I’d wait for some of the maintainers (dis)agree first. What do you
> think, would such a thing be useful?

Disabling the menu bar and the tool bar, let alone doing that by
default, makes very little sense to me.  I'm running with both of them
enable, although I rarely if ever use them.

So yes, please do urge those distros not to disable these UI features.

Thanks.