From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52877: [External] : Re: bug#52877: 27.2; Let `use-dialog-box' apply to more than just yes/no questions Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 10:50:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83bl0cysh1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r199wc44.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21863"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 52877@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 16 09:51:10 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n91Fl-0005SY-93 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 09:51:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52570 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n91Fj-0007ZV-MO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n91Fd-0007ZN-VH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:49534) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n91Fd-00035a-MB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n91Fd-0008Rn-Lm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:51:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52877 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 52877-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52877.164232305632459 (code B ref 52877); Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52877) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Jan 2022 08:50:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42437 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n91FY-0008RT-CG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38130) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n91FX-0008RI-Bq for 52877@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:50:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=44760 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n91FR-00032H-QS; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:50:49 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=E0ylciL/Du8FVDpYfleQ4tATp7PtUVGHCVaqf3TCFCk=; b=NQAyPIYhjw+8 OQ6z9MWyI4IIzBe8EWoA7EN36Tq6KU1onHo7wiyPSOkFVTmHlHDSXFtSSUrObd1P7dEBUm5Czmsaq YE3bzlHCyVnmaAj2ai99oQ5WgjH2duz6HO4XL7oAaHD6+0N4+vredTZQ7xPXDnYKqxQeRHy1ZwY6m 6nqqa6GtvgIM32khI4ghrojYcfCoCUjC/3KGo7eEeJ9DSl+PEoS7YF6y0fSD/FdZcidXIhCr7yBTB wwQpiZbEnN+uTQA4qEQNLPy5EV+MIelw5LAjiKQUKkGSAzLpKRR5iU6VYqwgc0GgEXdoDP5ErwzRB 0Hg6IC83eLUgjNa1Lhjnbw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2735 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n91FQ-0002G5-Rm; Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:50:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:12:05 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:224368 Archived-At: > From: Drew Adams > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:12:05 +0000 > Cc: "52877@debbugs.gnu.org" <52877@debbugs.gnu.org> > > > So it uses a graphical chooser by default, no matter whether > > use-dialog-box is set or not. > > Exactly. That's exactly the limitation this > enhancement request asks to remove. Let _users_ > control whether it uses a graphical chooser > or not - exactly what `use-dialog-box' is for. > > The limitation is that `use-dialog-box' currently > is usable only with `yes-or-no' questions. We don't provide any non-dialog way of selecting fonts because no one has written code to do that. The dialog we show uses OS APIs, and the implementation, beyond popping up the dialog and using the value it returns, is not in Emacs. So we simply cannot offer the users control of this, since we don't have code to find the available fonts relevant to Emacs and display them grouped by family, typeface, size, etc., in a useful way. We use the system-provided dialogs instead. IOW, this is not a bug.