Re: Faces applies to new frames

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> From what I can tell, you want something like an alist that collects the
> face settings to apply to new faces, based on defface specs, X
> resources, and face-new-frame-defaults.  It seems that the main goal of
> this is to avoid recomputing faces each time we create a frame.  But if
> the defface specs are user-accessible Lisp structures, there's no way
> for us to know that they haven't been changed since the last time the
> alist was recomputed.  So we would have to recompute each time a new
> frame is created, anyway.  No?

I don't think so: presumably the code that changed the defface specs
will want to apply this change to existing frames, so wherever that is
done, we can update face-new-frame-defaults correspondingly.


        Stefan