Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:17:31 +0300
> 
> On 15.04.2020 09:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I think if we had the code for making the corners round, we'd use it
> > more or less unconditionally.  But we don't have such code, AFAIK, so
> > patches to add such capabilities to Emacs are most welcome.
> 
> I think the difficulty here is to look "contemporary" and yet fit every 
> platform Emacs is run on. Button widgets look different on each. Even 
> between GUI toolkits. And change between releases.

There are only 2 variants: native buttons (provided by some toolkit)
or the ones we draw ourselves.  And there's no requirement that they
all look the same, I think: they should have the look-and-feel of the
toolkit being used.

> The other option, of course, is to look both modern and unique, but it's 
> a harder proposition, especially without a graphical designer on the 
> team. And this stuff gets outdated quickly.

I think "modern and unique" is a contradiction of terms nowadays ;-)