From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: can't set both mode-line color and default frame font? Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:12:54 +0200 Message-ID: <46F0BDE6.5070202@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190182396 22797 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2007 06:13:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 19 08:13:14 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 1IXsoD-00077u-OV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:13:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXsoC-0008P3-2U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXso6-0008OP-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXso4-0008Nc-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXso4-0008NX-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.184]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXso3-0003Js-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id E26143827C; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB0837F13; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (90-231-102-24-no59.tbcn.telia.com [90.231.102.24]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 951D037E4A; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:13:01 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) 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:79279 Archived-At: Drew Adams skrev: >> However, if we always give face customization precedence over >> X resources, then we don't need to disinguish GNOME's X resources >> from other X resources. I think Emacs reads "X resources" from the registry in W32 (w32reg.c). > > I don't have an opinion about this, and I'm usually on Windows, which has no > X resources. > > It sounded logical to me when I read that customization should take > precedence over X resources. However, it just occurred to me that it might > also be useful for it to be the other way around. > > A user might have the same `custom-file' on different platforms, and > different X resources for various platforms would then modulate the > behavior, if they took precedence over the `custom-file' settings. > Otherwise, to get the same effect, the user would need different > `custom-file's. This is a very unlikely scenario. Much easier to just customize faces in Emacs on each platform. Jan D.