From: Ian Dunn <dunni@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:38:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9kkqw37.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fu5w92cw.fsf@gnu.org>
>> From: Ian Dunn <dunni@gnu.org> 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)?
Eli> The latter. We should try to make Emacs modern-looking, which means
Eli> showing fancy, good-looking icons and small images instead of "ASCII
Eli> art", wherever possible and reasonable. The ASCII fallback is fine for
Eli> TTY frames, of course.
Eli> Thanks.
Seems doable to use images instead of background/cursor strings for graphical displays, then fall back on text for text displays (or if the user/developer didn't specify images).
--
Ian Dunn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-20 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-19 18:02 [ELPA] New package: slider-widget Ian Dunn
2018-02-19 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-19 19:25 ` Ian Dunn
2018-02-19 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-19 20:11 ` joakim
2018-02-20 1:38 ` Ian Dunn [this message]
2018-02-19 21:28 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
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