Re: creating new frame doesn't get faces right

[Glenn Morris]

John Paul Wallington wrote:

> Presumably as a result of Kim's extensive changes the bug no longer
> manifests itself.
[...]
> I'm inclined to leave things as they are.  WDYT?

I'm still seeing frame/face-related problems. With the current CVS:

emacs -q --no-site-file

(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil
                    :foreground "DarkSlateGrey" :background "Wheat")

The face is set correctly in the current frame. For some reason,
however, M-x customize-face reports that "this face is unchanged from
its standard setting". 

If I then create a new frame, the mode-line face gets :inverse-video
turned on from somewhere, and loses its :box attribute. M-x
customize-face still doesn't think the face has changed.

Similar problems occur with set-face-background. It seems that both
this function and set-face-attribute only affect frames that exist
when they are called. But according to their doc-strings, if changes
are applied to all frames they should be applied to new frames as
well. This is certainly what used to happen (up until less than one
week ago).