Re: bad UI defaults

[Miles Bader]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> Personally I would prefer boxes with check marks.  These are a lot
> clearer and, to me, also look better.

Yes I agree this would make a much bigger difference than adjusting the
border size (even with thick borders, the difference between an `in' 3D
button and an `out' 3D button is sometimes easy to miss).

A similar improvement would be to use shading to highlight selected
menu items, in addition to the 3Dness change.

> I do not believe that the Lucid menu widgets offer this as an
> alternative, however.

It's just a matter of hacking... :-)

>From what little experience I have with modifying the Lucid widgets,
they're rather easy to hack on, actually, especially if you can get away
with just drawing stuff (as opposed to having to allocate [and thus keep
track of] any new resources colors/pixmaps/etc).

I wonder what people's thoughts are about the future of the various
widget toolkits that emacs supports, though; I guess Lucid will remain
the default for a fairly long time?

-Miles
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