Re: The color of a header line and window selection.

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl>]

Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

> Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl> writes:
>
>> Under X, in a frame with multiple windows, the mode line of the
>> selected window will be darker than the mode lines of the other
>> windows.  A header line, however, always has the light color.  Is
>> there a reason why the header line should behave differently?
>
> I suppose it's because people think of the mode-line as being a sort
> of `frame', but the header-line as being basically part of the
> buffer...

Actually, the light color of the header-line is identical to the color
of the menus and the toolbar.  To me, this makes the header line
appear as a part of the frame.

I would prefer that the header line behaves like the mode line in that
it has the same color for a selected window.  If people don't like
this idea, it still may be a good idea to offer users the opportunity
to do this.  As is stands now, there are two standard faces for the
mode line (`mode-line' and `mode-line-inactive') and just one face for
the header line (`header-line').  We could introduce the face
`header-line-inactive' and use it to color the header line of
non-selected windows and use `header-line' for selected windows only.


  Lute.