Re: 23.0.50; Middle w in of permissions in dired-mode is red and bold: dired-warning

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:37:10 +0200
> 
> >> I propose a patch below for the 22 branch that renames the face
> >> `dired-warn-writable' to more appropriate name `dired-perm-write'
> >> that doesn't associate it with a warning, and changes its parent face
> >> from `font-lock-warning-face' to `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'
> >> on non-Windows platforms.
> >
> > I object.  I think now is not the time for making behavioral changes
> > in the release branch.  We are too close to the release.
> 
> This is not a behavioral change.

Changes in faces are changes in behavior.

> This is a fix for the grave usability bug
> you introduced to GNU/Linux users.  It seems you realize the severity of
> this problem since you wrote several times proposing to fix it:

That was in October, 6 months ago.  _Then_ I didn't mind, as I don't
mind now that you make this change on the trunk.

> I think it is not yet too late to fix this bug

I think it is too late.

> because there is absolutely no risk of breaking something else with
> this simple fix.

There's no such thing as ``absolutely no risk'' in software changes.