From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `face' widget type Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:06:05 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109594419 9915 80.91.229.2 (28 Feb 2005 12:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 28 13:40:19 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5kC6-0004hj-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:40:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5kUR-0001ID-Tl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5jyQ-0005oh-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5jyN-0005mf-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:26:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5jyL-0005fl-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.225.40.227] (helo=sheridan.dina.kvl.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D5jf5-0001rF-S9; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:06:08 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4B514078; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:06:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sheridan.dina.kvl.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sheridan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29124-08; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:06:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (Postfix, from userid 304) id 2F5B614073; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:06:05 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:25:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at dina.kvl.dk 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33916 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33916 Richard Stallman writes: > I don't have time to find out. > > Will you have time in the future? Things I don't do right away tend not to be done at all, or many years later. > Can you tell us some advice? > I think nobody but you really understands this code.] My advice would be to delay any improvement (except for fixing regressions) until you are at the *start* of a development phase. The code *is* complex, and there is some non-trivial dependencies, so any changes should be done at a phase where there is plenty of time left to find any bugs they might uncover. I.e. now is entirely the wrong time to start improving the customize UI.