Re: bad UI defaults

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>      * The changed behaviour of the blinking cursor -- solid and empty
>        box, rather than solid and absent -- makes it hard to read the
>        character under the cursor, at least with the font I use
>        (lucidatypewriter-medium-*-normal-*-*-120).
> 
> You can change that behavior, I believe.

Yes, but I was commenting on the default, which seems worse.

> I don't see that it makes text hard to read in the default font.

If I start up with no resources defined, I get 

-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1

which looks similar for me.

>      * The new mode-line order is worse IMO.
> 
> In what way worse?

Because things I think are important get shunted of to the right, as
below.

>       To me the time, mail status and
>        battery status are important and shouldn't be shunted off the
>        right.  I don't care about the line number and people who worry
>        about line numbers usually aren't using Emacs properly.
> 
> I often use the line number.

Gosh.  I turn it off and have always advised people to look for
commands that make it irrelevant.

> If people generally agree with you on any of these points, I will
> agree to change it.

I didn't doubt you'd be amenable to sensible modification.  I assumed
people were using customizations which masked the effects of the
defaults which jarred with me.  I'm surprised I'm apparently at odds
with everyone else on these things.

I think there should be a way to customize the changed behaviour of
the items in the Lucid menus.