From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MENU to choose the font Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:02:52 +0000 Message-ID: <46011EEC.8080002@gnu.org> References: <11355982.186151174475137846.JavaMail.www@wwinf4102> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174478603 19542 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2007 12:03:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" To: "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 13:03:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HTzX1-0002sd-IY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:03:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HTzYg-0006Ie-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:04:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HTzYd-0006Gl-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HTzYa-0006Da-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:04:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HTzYa-0006DX-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:04:44 -0500 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HTzWt-0006In-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7989A50074; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:02:57 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68219 Archived-At: Kim F. Storm wrote: > A Soare writes: > > >> Why it is not chosen another system to change the font using the mouse? >> > > Because nobody has contributed the code to do so. > I did some time ago, but rms wanted more wide ranging changes that I didn't have time to do. When I wrote it, the GTK patches were still being maintained externally, so I used external programs to launch the font dialog, but it is probably better to use the GTK font dialog directly from Emacs in GTK builds. The code I wrote is at http://emacs.jasonrumney.net/