On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:02:47PM +0000, Michael F Gordon wrote:
> After having played with 2.1.7 for a while, the inconsistencies
> in how various commands take their options began to annoy me.
> The following changes would, in my opinion, make things cleaner
> and simpler.
>
> Get rid of HighlightColor and specify HilightColorForeground
> and HilightColorBackground in Style commands.
Why should it? The hilighting colour is definitely a global
setting. Why should it be a window style?
> WindowFont should be part of the Style command as well.
>
> IconFont should be extended to a full IconStyle, with the
> default IconStyle inheriting the values that make sense for
> icons from the default Style unless they've been set explicitly.
Again I don't understand what what the benefit would be. Looking
through the manpage I see not settings at all that would make
sense passing from a window style to an icon style. There are
only two things configurable to icons (apart from the font):
If it goes into the icon box and if it has a title.
I don't think we should start wasting space just for the sake
of parsing consistency. In my eyes neither the fonts nor the
hilight colors are global settings.
> Where you're configuring the same thing, the option should be the
> same. For example, there's no reason to have Foreground and
> Background in MenuStyle and ForeColor and BackColor in Style.
Yup.
Bye
Dominik
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Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 19:18:20 GMT