From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern"
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 23:13:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1554aef-462b-2100-1925-8bd2c92c9300@grinta.net> (raw)
Hello,
congratulations on the recent major release!
I know that the matter is very subjective (and maybe a similar
suggestion has been discussed already, although I don't remember seeing
anything like this) but I would like to suggest what I think is an easy
way to refresh the look of Emacs and adapt it to the 2020ies taste :-)
I think the Emacs default theme is extremely well curated. However, the
mode-line has an outdated feel to me. I recently reconfigured it just
slightly and I thing the look of Emacs improves significantly.
The base of the modification is this:
(let ((bg (face-attribute 'mode-line :background)))
(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil
:box (list :line-width 4 :color bg :style nil)))
Namely I remove the 1990ies pseudo 3D box and I replace with a slightly
wider flat box. The total extend of my customization is actually:
(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil
:height 110
:background "grey88"
:box '(:line-width 4 :color "grey88" :style nil))
(set-face-attribute 'mode-line-inactive nil
:height 110
:background "grey95"
:box '(:line-width 4 :color "grey95" :style nil))
Where I also reduce the font size slightly compared to my main font
sizer and I use lighter gray tones that better match the rest of my
desktop, but I realize these are probably even more subjective preferences.
Maybe something to consider for the next major release.
I would also like to give some more air (padding) to the minibuffer, but
I haven't found a way to do that in the 10 minutes that I looked at it.
Cheers,
Dan
next reply other threads:[~2022-04-09 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-09 21:13 Daniele Nicolodi [this message]
2022-04-09 21:25 ` Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern" Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-09 21:34 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-09 21:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-09 21:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-09 21:49 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-09 21:54 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-09 22:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-10 1:57 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-10 2:41 ` Visuwesh
2022-04-10 6:38 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-10 6:47 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 8:04 ` Visuwesh
2022-04-10 6:13 ` tomas
2022-04-09 23:20 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-10 1:12 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 13:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-10 1:10 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 6:44 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-10 6:50 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 6:58 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-04-10 12:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-10 12:28 ` Po Lu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-04-11 8:49 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-04-11 9:25 ` Daniele Nicolodi
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