Re: [vm] New summary faces integration

[Arik Mitschang]

 > 1. The 'standard' faces have been defined so that they provide reasonable
 > defaults regardless of environment i.e. X, console, etc.

I use a no-X version of emacs and so the default VM faces didn't
really do much for me (no strike through on xterm, no gray levels
either). So this sounds like a reasonable thing to do to me.

~Arik

 > 
 > 2. Those users who like to customize their faces will probably already have
 > done so for the standard faces. Having VM inherit from those settings means
 > they will probably get better default results.
 > 
 > 3. For users who use the colour-themes package, the default VM faces will
 > likely fit in with their colour theme better if they are inheriting from
 > standard faces. 
 > 
 > 4. We don't need to worry about personal taste and our selected defaults. If
 > people don't like the defaults, they can take the issue up with the emacs
 > maintainers. 
 > 
 > 5. We don't need to worry about setting defaults that take into account those
 > who use light backgrounds and those who use dark ones etc.
 > 
 > Comments, opinions?
 > 
 > Tim
 > 
 > 
 > 

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Arik W. Mitschang