Re: More conservative fix for bug#37473 screws my fonts

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Using emacs-29.0.50, I turn off mode-line proportional fonts via
>
>  (cond((= emacs-major-version 29) ;; emacs-29
>  (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-active nil :inherit 'mode-line)
>  (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-inactive nil :inherit 'mode-line)
>  )) ;; End brackets for cond.
>
> and have the setting
>
>  '(mode-line ((t (:background "PaleGreen" :foreground "black"
>  :weight normal))))

FWIW, proportional fonts in the mode-line are already off by default.

> in my theme file. All worked well until commit b2d11d69dd. Now my
> mode-line fonts appear to have a light setting weight - they certainly
> appear washed out. If I change the weight to bold then they appear too
> heavy. If I revert the commit all return to normal.
>
> If we are to have this change, could some information be given as to how
> we might return the appearance to what it used to be?

Does it happen with 37f168afdd too?

I didn't really understand either of the changes, but was trying to fix
a problem on my machine while keeping most of the idea of Lars' code
intact.