From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fringe buffer-boundary bitmaps Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:19:06 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119486355 16120 80.91.229.2 (23 Jun 2005 00:25:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 23 02:25:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlFX4-0002qa-QB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:25:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlFdn-0008H0-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlFbI-00079S-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlFbD-00076L-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlFbC-000741-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DlFU8-0002jy-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so60614wri for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:19:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O3ftIg9hOH3RL029i998uEXcOHhgtjv47ZKw4CnQG3lol3guyXcbdAo3bdSH8CVKjKo9HlFnBUEJEKZZA1WRc8mHJGgPtT6A5T4wJHr+g47pp7Pc4U11Bdy6uhfQuW1szDO72IhavVra+dQHHPWHRMoLWgKelyb7wL0rRwI3++o= Original-Received: by 10.54.17.40 with SMTP id 40mr2658wrq; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:39329 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39329 On 6/22/05, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > I am not sure whether my preferences comes from a liking for > symmetrical images, such as top_left_angle_bits, or my high resolution > display, or something else. The suggested continuation_bits map is > much too `thin' or `light' on my screen. 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). So I dunno. Maybe it would make sense to have a few alternate sets of bitmaps packaged with emacs, similar to Gnome's icon-themes? [BTW I still think the default overlay-arrow (aka "the blob") is completely awful, regardless of context...] -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.