From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: can't set both mode-line color and default frame font? Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ejhcmgp2.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <200709062116.l86LGWnO000262@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <46E58B34.9070904@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190037651 19573 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2007 14:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd?= To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 17 16:00:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXH9a-0004Za-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:00:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXH9Z-00017O-ER for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXH9W-00016q-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXH9V-00016N-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXH9V-00016K-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts36.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.93] helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXH9R-0000f9-5A; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.141.227]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070917140036.QGKN7990.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D2C7685BF; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 16 Sep 2007 23\:59\:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:79103 Archived-At: > * All-frames face attribute settings > * X resources. > * User face customizations > * The defface. Why should X resources take precedence over user face customizations? It seems swapping the two would make a lot more sense (by removing the inconsistency being discussed and by giving precedence by customization made "the Emacs way" over customizations made in some more system-wide style, as is usually the tradition in Emacs). Stefan