From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomas Hlavaty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57372: no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font configuration Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:49:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87k06xilb0.fsf@logand.com> References: <87lerek7pt.fsf@logand.com> <83k06y74sy.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8qihxbk.fsf@logand.com> <87czcp29m6.fsf@yahoo.com> <834jy17umv.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgftzvqt.fsf@yahoo.com> <83sfll6d38.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12312"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 57372@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Po Lu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 19:56:44 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 1oQucO-00037G-TY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:56:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45248 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQucN-0006kk-Vy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQuVv-0003Vv-Kj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQuVv-0006WE-AQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQuVu-0004Hn-65 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Tomas Hlavaty Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57372 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 57372-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57372.166136336916427 (code B ref 57372); Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57372) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Aug 2022 17:49:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48143 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQuVN-0004Gt-6w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:43058) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQuVK-0004Gk-Pi for 57372@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 688B31A17BF; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:49:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: emacs 28.1 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: <83sfll6d38.fsf@gnu.org> 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:240648 Archived-At: On Wed 24 Aug 2022 at 15:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Frames are a bad basis for menus: they (the frames) are too > heavyweight for a menu, so the resulting menus will look ugly. I find the alien X resource fonts the ugliest, unreadable and very inconvenient because the font size is completely wrong and inconvenient to control. > If we want good-looking menus independent of any toolkit, we should > try to find a small library capable of producing them on popular GUI > platforms. I do not care much for whatever ugly look the popped up menus have as long as they respect faces. It is just a few lines of text so surely that cannot be that ugly if the font fits with the chosen emacs face and not some alien X resource or toolkit/desktop font specific configuration which is completely out of sync from my emacs face configuration.