From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: customizing `frame-background-mode' Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:47:49 +0100 Message-ID: <43804645.5060302@gmx.at> References: <437DB290.8060203@gmx.at> <871x1cujjj.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132489755 4389 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2005 12:29:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 20 13:29:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdoIv-0003pV-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:28:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdoIu-0006eD-Hf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:28:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EdnmB-0007r3-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ednm9-0007qa-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:54:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ednm9-0007qU-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:54:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ednm9-0003qG-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2005 11:54:26 -0000 Original-Received: from N846P027.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.49.187]) [62.47.49.187] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 20 Nov 2005 12:54:26 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <871x1cujjj.fsf@jurta.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46334 Archived-At: > As the documentation string says: "Set nil (default) if you want Emacs > to examine the brightness for you". > > I think the [default] button is misleading into thinking it has > something to do with the default value of frame-background-mode. > Perhaps it should be changed from the button to ordinary text, > because the [Value Menu] button prior to it has the same menu > for selecting its value. Also the tag "default" could be changed > to something more descriptive like "default brightness". The [Value Menu] and the [dark/light/default] button behave in exactly the same manner. I wonder whether they should do something different. With other words, why not replace :type '(choice (choice-item dark) (choice-item light) (choice-item :tag "default" nil))) by :type '(choice (const dark) (const light) (const :tag "default" nil))) but probably I'm missing something here.