Hello @all...

> Would it help to turn the X resource settings into a theme which can
> then be maybe more easily stacked at the right place?

Stefan, thanks for the idea. With the way things are currently wired,
this would most certainly mess the logic up. :(

Eli, could you please test the attached patches? Everything is rather
self-explanatory and the fix as simplistic as possible. I tested it for
all known possible regressions, but everything works just fine here. It
looks like it is the right thing to do (tm). Unfortunately, I was not
able to test it on win32 (yeah, I know, sorry) for obvious reasons :)
but based on what you said, it should fix the toolbar coloring just fine.

If there are no regressions reported from other parties and if it fixes
the issues on win32, from my side just go ahead and apply it to master
and emacs-24.

Hoping very much for positive feedback. ;-)

So long,
Matthias

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