From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Kenichi Handa'" <handa@m17n.org>,
"'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Box graphic tweak
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:34:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AEB9D768C84AADAD221D9DBE22E44B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tl71v7tjtg5.fsf@m17n.org>
> > The default mode-line has width 1, so it's unaffected. Setting the
> > width to 2, the result still also looks reasonable; see attached.
>
> ??? The default box's line-width of mode-line is -1 to make the
> height of the mode-line the same as the other default lines.
And I tried to stress that a setting of -1 is important, and that users need to
be able to adjust whatever new boxing features we might add:
d> More importantly, such an appearance difference should in any
d> case be under user control - just as users can today control
d> the box outline width and even whether it extends outside the
d> char size or within it (using a negative width). It must
d> not be forced.
d>
d> IOW, if you would like to make such a feature available to
d> users, great, but it should be as optional as the other `box'
d> attributes.
d>
d> (The ability to use a negative box width is important, BTW,
d> and your new feature should not force a boxed char to always
d> be larger than a normal char - there needs to be some way to
d> control the overall size.
No response to that. I still don't know whether and how much users will be able
to control this. All that was said was that this feature gives us a new default
appearance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-14 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 5:14 Box graphic tweak Chong Yidong
2010-10-08 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-08 13:59 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-08 14:13 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-09 3:46 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-14 4:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-10-14 4:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-10-14 4:45 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-14 4:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-10-14 6:04 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-08 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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