From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable pitch mode line Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 19:34:01 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86mtkszhnq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87zgosdbo1.fsf@gnus.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="30059"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 22 19:08:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1n062P-0007Yj-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 19:08:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36438 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n062O-0005Zu-BC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 13:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n05ku-0007r6-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:50:24 -0500 Original-Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:60297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n05kp-00075C-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B122EFF808; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:50:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87zgosdbo1.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:14:22 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.199; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay9-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:282810 Archived-At: > It's been almost a month since it was switched to "on", so I think it's > about time to take stock. > > I think that, long term, we want to go in that direction. But we've > uncovered some usability problems, mainly in the "how do I click those > things in "U:--" anyway?" area, and we've got a plan to fix that, but > haven't yet. > > So I think the way forward is to revert the trunk back to monospaced > fonts, then fix the usability problems, and then do another test in a > few months. Variable pitch mode line is nice, but definitely that part with "U:---" should use monospaced fonts. Also using variable pitch would be nice of header lines where it has no problems.