Re: bad UI defaults

[Gerd Moellmann]

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).
> 
> My idea here was to make it easier to see the cursor.
> If people generally don't like it, then let's undo the change.

Yes, please!

>     >  * The smaller (one-pixel?) width of the outlines of boxes and arrows
>     >    in the menus means they pretty well fade away on my 1280×1024
>     >    display. 
> 
>     Same for me, same resolution, wearing glasses.  If I'm not looking
>     very carefully, I don't see the arrows in the menu at all.  I gather
>     this is to make Emacs integrate better with some Gnome style, but I
>     can't say I like it :).
> 
> I am not sure what change this refers to.  I don't think it was a
> change that I made.

This is, I think, the change in the menu defaults (in lwlib):

2002-04-29  Pavel Janík  <address@hidden>

        * xlwmenu.c <XtNmargin, XtNverticalSpacing, XmNshadowThickness>:
        Change default values.

There are probably accompanying changes for shadow thicknesses of
toolbar buttons, for instance, which are also hard to see for me.