From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniele Nicolodi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern" Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 23:13:31 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28853"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.7.0 To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 09 23:14:30 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ndIPe-0007K2-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2022 23:14:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41832 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndIPc-0005hK-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:14:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39660) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndIOo-00051Q-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from grinta.net ([109.74.203.128]:35162) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndIOm-00006s-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.220] (p4fe7177f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.231.23.127]) (Authenticated sender: daniele) by grinta.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 64FC7E0501 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 21:13:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=grinta.net; s=2020; t=1649538812; bh=QXQo29NaNAp/Mqfc3rYvMu3sGgqk8JOAgwFMruIEoZk=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:From; b=QAS/oNbSADRD+7LHE1zCuoRHyY6NHk7aZjggAmIXfRlf0YWZZ65ovDYvoXJommd8H PTir8BMeaopqYQDx1S3LUPL0xhk9RPZVz/bBqireK7bx2I2HbqaYIut5bcHqNsBVGZ Pv7ZN0vkRAeMLmtSGYOaFcb/syzRQFqnDHG+SjBfd1BnJ7hkzNvu0IHMEcG02zj/7b T7UM+C2aIwLmEeI0ENhkKts4mzKq4/LBr7tex2sGSmfmjbvDooPUlB9nQZShFus/wj ZDGm8Vf7ONzgBUOumvYXNSCU22Z9pfAoOyOr9neAU5/+2c0e6KkMgcWo3YAMAPnYHD NNnWrA7WhevzA== Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=109.74.203.128; envelope-from=daniele@grinta.net; helo=grinta.net X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288059 Archived-At: 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