RE: Bug in change in button.el?

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > But this seems a bit tortuous.  If we want to do this, button
> > might as well just inherit from the underline face.
>
> The default button usage is AFAICS a link. Then it seems natural to me
> that the default face for button is link.
>
> We discussed that before, but I think it was deemed "to close to the
> release" (though I do not remember the reason for sure any more).
> However if any change is going to be made now I propose what I said above.

I really don't want to get involved in this discussion, and I have not been
following it well. I assumed this was only about MSDOS.

However, if you are now deciding general things about the appearance of
buttons and links, I'd say (once again) that users should generally be able
to distinguish buttons from links by looking at them. Buttons should not, in
general, look like links.

Users should be able to expect that clicking a link takes them somewhere and
clicking a button performs some action (other than what a link does).
Preferably, users should have some idea where a given link leads and what
action a given button performs.

This doesn't say much about how things must be implemented, of course.