Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

[Torsten Bronger]

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Hallöchen!

I just upgraded to current Git Emacs (commit c66eb52453) from
October Emacs (commit 241574375d).  Now, the modeline and the Gnus
email headers in the article view have a different font from the
rest.  In particular, a .emacs only containing

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Ubuntu Mono" :height 140)

used to change the modeline.  However with current Git Emacs, it
does not affect it.

I assume this is a deliberate change, therefore I did not file a bug
report but ask here how to handle this best?

Thanks!

Tschö,
Torsten.

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Re: Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 11:03:59 +0100, Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> said:

    Torsten> Hallöchen!
    Torsten> I just upgraded to current Git Emacs (commit c66eb52453) from
    Torsten> October Emacs (commit 241574375d).  Now, the modeline and the Gnus
    Torsten> email headers in the article view have a different font from the
    Torsten> rest.  In particular, a .emacs only containing

    Torsten> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Ubuntu Mono" :height 140)

    Torsten> used to change the modeline.  However with current Git Emacs, it
    Torsten> does not affect it.

    Torsten> I assume this is a deliberate change, therefore I did not file a bug
    Torsten> report but ask here how to handle this best?

From etc/NEWS

+++
** New face 'mode-line-active'.
This inherits from the 'mode-line' face, but is the face actually used
on the mode lines (along with 'mode-line-inactive').

---
** The mode line now uses a proportional font by default.
To get the old monospaced mode line back, customize the
'mode-line-active' and 'mode-line-inactive' faces not to inherit from
the 'variable-pitch' face, or add this to your "~/.emacs":

  (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-active nil :inherit 'mode-line)
  (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-inactive nil :inherit 'mode-line)

---
*** Gnus now uses a variable-pitch font in the headers by default.
To get the monospace font back, you can put something like the
following in your .gnus file:

    (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)

Robert
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Re: Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

[Torsten Bronger]

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Hallöchen!

Robert Pluim writes:

> [...]
>
> From etc/NEWS
>
> +++
> ** New face 'mode-line-active'.
> This inherits from the 'mode-line' face, but is the face actually used
> on the mode lines (along with 'mode-line-inactive').
>
> ---
> ** The mode line now uses a proportional font by default.
> To get the old monospaced mode line back, customize the
> 'mode-line-active' and 'mode-line-inactive' faces not to inherit from
> the 'variable-pitch' face, or add this to your "~/.emacs":
>
>   (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-active nil :inherit 'mode-line)
>   (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-inactive nil :inherit 'mode-line)

Thank you, this worked!  (Additionally, I had to revert the default
colour for the inactive mode line.)

> ---
> *** Gnus now uses a variable-pitch font in the headers by default.
> To get the monospace font back, you can put something like the
> following in your .gnus file:
>
>     (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)

For me, this didn’t work out-of-the-box.  Apparently, the colour
“gnus-header” is defined rather late in the Gnus startup.  I had to
write:

(add-hook 'gnus-setup-news-hook (lambda () (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)))

Even the gnus-started-hook was not “late” enough.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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Re: Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

[Arash Esbati]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> Robert Pluim writes:
>
>> From etc/NEWS
>>
>> +++
>> ** New face 'mode-line-active'.
>> This inherits from the 'mode-line' face, but is the face actually used
>> on the mode lines (along with 'mode-line-inactive').
>>
>> ---
>> ** The mode line now uses a proportional font by default.
>> To get the old monospaced mode line back, customize the
>> 'mode-line-active' and 'mode-line-inactive' faces not to inherit from
>> the 'variable-pitch' face, or add this to your "~/.emacs":
>>
>>   (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-active nil :inherit 'mode-line)
>>   (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-inactive nil :inherit 'mode-line)
>
> Thank you, this worked!  (Additionally, I had to revert the default
> colour for the inactive mode line.)

This single line worked for me:

(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :inherit 'default)

>> *** Gnus now uses a variable-pitch font in the headers by default.
>> To get the monospace font back, you can put something like the
>> following in your .gnus file:
>>
>>     (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)
>
> For me, this didn’t work out-of-the-box.  Apparently, the colour
> “gnus-header” is defined rather late in the Gnus startup.  I had to
> write:
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-setup-news-hook (lambda () (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)))
>
> Even the gnus-started-hook was not “late” enough.

The face gnus-header is defined in gnus-art.el, hence I added this to my
.gnus:

(with-eval-after-load "gnus-art"
  (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified))

Best, Arash

Re: Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

[Torsten Bronger]

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Hallöchen!

Arash Esbati writes:

> [...]
>
> This single line worked for me:
>
> (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :inherit 'default)
>
> [...]
>
> The face gnus-header is defined in gnus-art.el, hence I added this to my
> .gnus:
>
> (with-eval-after-load "gnus-art"
>   (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified))

Thank you, this works also for me and is certainly the
least-invasive change you can get.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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Re: Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Torsten Bronger wrote:

> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Ubuntu Mono" :height 140)
>
> used to change the modeline. However with current Git Emacs,
> it does not affect it.

To change the mode line? But you don't mention a/any mode line
face ... they are

  mode-line          
  mode-line-buffer-id
  mode-line-emphasis 
  mode-line-highlight
  mode-line-inactive

(BTW it seems they are "inverted" or whatever that property is
called (?) so to for example get white text the _background_
is set to white ...)

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