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* Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern"
@ 2022-04-09 21:13 Daniele Nicolodi
  2022-04-09 21:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 25+ messages in thread
From: Daniele Nicolodi @ 2022-04-09 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs developers

Hello,

congratulations on the recent major release!

I know that the matter is very subjective (and maybe a similar 
suggestion has been discussed already, although I don't remember seeing 
anything like this) but I would like to suggest what I think is an easy 
way to refresh the look of Emacs and adapt it to the 2020ies taste :-)

I think the Emacs default theme is extremely well curated. However, the 
mode-line has an outdated feel to me. I recently reconfigured it just 
slightly and I thing the look of Emacs improves significantly.

The base of the modification is this:

(let ((bg (face-attribute 'mode-line :background)))
   (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil
                       :box (list :line-width 4 :color bg :style nil)))

Namely I remove the 1990ies pseudo 3D box and I replace with a slightly 
wider flat box. The total extend of my customization is actually:

(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil
                     :height 110
                     :background "grey88"
                     :box '(:line-width 4 :color "grey88" :style nil))
(set-face-attribute 'mode-line-inactive nil
                     :height 110
                     :background "grey95"
                     :box '(:line-width 4 :color "grey95" :style nil))

Where I also reduce the font size slightly compared to my main font 
sizer and I use lighter gray tones that better match the rest of my 
desktop, but I realize these are probably even more subjective preferences.

Maybe something to consider for the next major release.

I would also like to give some more air (padding) to the minibuffer, but 
I haven't found a way to do that in the 10 minutes that I looked at it.

Cheers,
Dan



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* Re: Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern"
@ 2022-04-11  8:49 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
  2022-04-11  9:25 ` Daniele Nicolodi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 25+ messages in thread
From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez @ 2022-04-11  8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: daniele; +Cc: emacs-devel

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Daniele> (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil
Daniele>                     :height 110
Daniele>                     :background "grey88"
Daniele>                     :box '(:line-width 4 :color "grey88" :style
nil))

I'm using
    (custom-set-faces
     '(mode-line           ((t (:inherit mode-line          :box
(:line-width 8 :style flat-button)))) t)
     '(mode-line-inactive  ((t (:inherit mode-line-inactive :box
(:line-width 8 :style flat-button)))) t))

To get a broader mode-line. flat-button is part of Emacs28

Best, /PA


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2022-04-09 21:13 Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern" Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-09 21:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-09 21:34   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-09 21:51     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-09 21:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-09 21:49   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-09 21:54   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-09 22:03     ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-10  1:57     ` Drew Adams
2022-04-10  2:41       ` Visuwesh
2022-04-10  6:38         ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-10  6:47           ` Po Lu
2022-04-10  8:04           ` Visuwesh
2022-04-10  6:13   ` tomas
2022-04-09 23:20 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-10  1:12   ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 13:46     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-10  1:10 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10  6:44   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-10  6:50     ` Po Lu
2022-04-10  6:58       ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-10 12:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-10 12:28   ` Po Lu
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