From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fringe buffer-boundary bitmaps Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:35:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119594876 30113 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 06:34:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 08:34:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlhlb-00012r-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:34:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlhsa-0003Us-AX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhG9-0000aM-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhG4-0000Xm-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhG4-00005x-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DlgvH-00050X-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Dlgqm-0001PC-5z; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:35:36 -0400 Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:19:06 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39406 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39406 I did some more testing, and it became pretty clear that which style ("light" or "heavy") looks better depends strongly on the font (smaller fonts go better with "light", but the thin bitmaps can start looking a bit lost with large fonts), background color (on a dark background, the white bitmaps stand out much more, which makes the "heavy" bitmaps look even heavier), and probably display type (I use an LCD display which is very good at showing single-pixel lines precisely). Maybe they should be selected based on the font of the default face.