Re: The color of a header line and window selection.

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     > It isn't part of the frame, so if the default color makes it look that
>     > way, we should change it.  The `header-line' face should specify a
>     > color that makes it appear to be what it is--part of the window
>     > contents.
>
>     I just noticed that my remark is only true for the GTK version.  Emacs
>     compiled with LessTif works the other way around: the menus and the
>     toolbar have the dark color of the selected mode line while the header
>     line with its light color seems more part of the buffer.
>
> Is the inconsistency in the default colors of the menu bar etc?

Yes.  When Emacs is compiled with GTK, the menu bar and the tool bar
have the light color of the header line and the mode line of a
non-selected window.  When Emacs is compiled with LessTif, the menu
bar and the tool bar have the dark color of the mode line of a
selected window.  I didn't check the Athena toolkit, but if memory
serves me, it behaves like LessTif in this respect.

> That is somewhat undesirable, I'd say.  Maybe we should make the
> default colors of the header line depend on the toolkit in use.

I think it's better to make the colors of the menu bar and tool bar
the same for all toolkits.


  Lute.