From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: reducing defface redundancy
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:12:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjbscdxvmz.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2950-Sat20Apr2002203550+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:35:50 +0300")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>> From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:59:41 +0200
>>
>> It is really easy to invent all kinds of smart stuff to the defface
>> spec at the Lisp level. Comming up with good UI is way harder.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand: what UI? defface is not a user-level
> feature, it's a programmer feature.
The primary purpose of defface is to give customize-face something to
work on. Just like the primary purpose of defcustom is to give
information to customize-variable. Otherwise, we could just as well
use the pre-customize facilities for creating faces and variables.
> Did you mean API, perhaps?
Certainly NOT! There are a zillion convenient things one can do on
the API level, that will translate badly or not at all to the UI.
Design the UI *first*, then translate it to the API. The UI is the
hard part.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-21 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-20 3:12 reducing defface redundancy Miles Bader
2002-04-20 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-20 15:59 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-20 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-21 9:12 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2002-04-20 17:41 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-21 2:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-21 9:17 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-21 9:34 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 8:15 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-23 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-23 1:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-24 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-24 20:06 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-25 9:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-26 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-03 6:38 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-03 9:31 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-03 14:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-07-08 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-09 1:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-09 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-09 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-09 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-10 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-11 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-12 1:28 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-12 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-21 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 0:28 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 22:37 ` Richard Stallman
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