From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ian Dunn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:38:20 -0500 Message-ID: <87o9kkqw37.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vaesrh6b.fsf@gnu.org> <83po5096hd.fsf@gnu.org> <87po50rdcb.fsf@gnu.org> <83fu5w92cw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519090727 19686 195.159.176.226 (20 Feb 2018 01:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 01:38:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.0.91 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 20 02:38:42 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enwt5-0003xf-AP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 02:38:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53117 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enwv5-0006aO-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:40:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enwuw-0006a8-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:40:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enwuv-0004LA-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enwuv-0004L2-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:40:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [2604:6000:1006:8725:afb2:757c:dc05:6d23] (port=46410 helo=escafil) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1enwuv-0007QU-16; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:40:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <83fu5w92cw.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223462 >> From: Ian Dunn Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Date: Mon, 19 Feb >> 2018 14:25:40 -0500 >> >> Eli> Any plans for making it more graphically-looking on GUI frames? >> >> Not yet. How do you mean "more graphically-looking"? Different >> characters to make it look like an unbroken line, or an actual graphical >> object (like we have for buttons)? Eli> The latter. We should try to make Emacs modern-looking, which means Eli> showing fancy, good-looking icons and small images instead of "ASCII Eli> art", wherever possible and reasonable. The ASCII fallback is fine for Eli> TTY frames, of course. Eli> Thanks. Seems doable to use images instead of background/cursor strings for graphical displays, then fall back on text for text displays (or if the user/developer didn't specify images). -- Ian Dunn