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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261086 Archived-At: > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 6:54 AM > From: "Richard Stallman" > To: "Christopher Dimech" > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Rather than arguing about having a toolbar or not, allow the > > user to introduce a toolbar icon and associate with it a specific co= mmand. > > I am not sure what that means, or how it would be different from the > current state of affairs. Would you please describe concreretely > what feature you're proposing? Currently one defines a keybinding using "global-set-key" or "add-hook" in their init file. Or by using "M-x global-set-key" or something simila= r. One then attaches a function, another keybinding or whatever to the user selected key sequence. Ok , I will tell you about it. A User Styled Toolbar. You name an icon (rather than a keybind) and associate with it the command (which can be an elisp function - emacs or user defined). Same functionality as keybinding but achieved by pressing an icon in the icon tool bar. Perhaps the icon c= an show text or an icon image (using a name from a pre-defined set). Functionality can be programmed by the user using elisp. We just provide a basic library of utilities so even beginners in elisp can just copy and paste from a basic template and adjust accordingly. Same as we are doing with keybindings. This will cater to those who want to use the mouse rath= er than keypresses. There could be several reasons for that: Repetitive Stra= in Injury, Illness, or Personal Injury. I can relate to that when I injured = my shoulder blade, arm and wrist, a year ago, and could only use the mouse wi= th a program that performs clicks and a virtual keyboard. Deciding the defau= lt behaviour of the toolbar is not important. But phasing it out or stop wor= k on it based on a cohort of people who say they do not want it, would be a = grave mistake. But you don't have to listen to me of coarse. I have also suggested making modus-themes the dafault face for emacs. I a= m reviewing the WCAG AAA International Standard with Protesilaos Stavrou for finding b= ugs, and extend functionality and capability, I also remember encouraging Jose Marchesi on his Recutils Project back in = 2013. I knew he was on to something and offered to be its maintainer when he stopped h= aving interest in it. Today, Gnu Recutils is back under active development and has been = adopted as part of the infrastructure of guix and GNUnet. Regards Christopher > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) > Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) > Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) > > > >