From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:11:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87a7w4loyo.fsf@chopper> References: <87vaesrh6b.fsf@gnu.org> <83po5096hd.fsf@gnu.org> <87po50rdcb.fsf@gnu.org> <83fu5w92cw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519070992 29786 195.159.176.226 (19 Feb 2018 20:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:09:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Ian Dunn , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 19 21:09:47 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enrkf-0006AM-GX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:09:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enrmg-00065J-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enrmY-000656-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enrmT-0005Q9-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:11:26 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.outgoing.loopia.se ([194.9.95.112]:47170) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enrmT-0005Mm-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from s554.loopia.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by s554.loopia.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDAE206AA61 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:11:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from s500.loopia.se (unknown [172.21.200.98]) by s554.loopia.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8BE5F444B; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:11:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from s404.loopia.se (unknown [172.21.200.105]) by s500.loopia.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BABFA82C93; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:11:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amavis.loopia.se Original-Received: from s630.loopia.se ([172.21.200.105]) by s404.loopia.se (s404.loopia.se [172.21.200.134]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id c8j13iY1uZTL; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:11:12 +0100 (CET) X-Loopia-Auth: user X-Loopia-User: joakim.verona@chimeslab.se X-Loopia-Originating-IP: 81.170.223.63 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (h-223-63.A149.priv.bahnhof.se [81.170.223.63]) (Authenticated sender: joakim.verona@chimeslab.se) by s630.loopia.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C8AF1C6F0C9; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:11:11 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <83fu5w92cw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:00:15 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 194.9.95.112 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222916 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Ian Dunn >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:25:40 -0500 >> >> >> Eli> Any plans for making it more graphically-looking on GUI frames? >> >> Not yet. How do you mean "more graphically-looking"? Different characters to make it look like an unbroken line, or an actual graphical object (like we have for buttons)? > > The latter. We should try to make Emacs modern-looking, which means > showing fancy, good-looking icons and small images instead of "ASCII > art", wherever possible and reasonable. The ASCII fallback is fine > for TTY frames, of course. I did a POC of graphical gtk sliders in the xwidget branch. I remember there being some redrawing issues, but it sort of worked otherwise. > > Thanks. > -- Joakim Verona joakim@verona.se +46705459454