A few comments on 21.4.3

Hello all. I've been out of the XEmacs development loop for a while, but I'm back now... my intentions w.r.t. XEmacs are to get back to working on alignment issues with proportional fonts, and to develop my little experiments (http://home.fnal.gov/~cgw/xemacs/experiment/) into a real patch. (The website is still up at FNAL but I am not currently working there). Dipping my toes back into the water of XEmacs development, I downloaded xemacs-21.4.3 and built it on a Solaris 5.7 box. A few comments: The progress gauge seems pretty broken. It only updates when I move the mouse. And when it does update, it jiggles horizontally, and the background flashes alternately grey and blue. (It looks pretty bad. I wish I knew how to take a screenshot in .MPG format). I find it somewhat disappointing that there is no configure-time option to disable gutters and progress-bars. Is there a customizable lisp variable to make these (no-value-added) progress gauges go away and trouble me no more? According to what I can find from hyper-apropos, I can make the progress gauge "large" or "small", but can I customize it into oblivion? In its current shape, the progress gauge is not yet ready for prime time. It should be disabled by default and enable-able as an option, like other "experimental" features such as drag-n-drop. The keyboard accelerators on the menus are similarly quite ugly and I'd like to see a way to disable these as well. They would be OK as an optional feature. Particularly things like the font-size menu, which looks goofy with two columns of numbers: _1_ 5 _2_ 6 _3_ 7 _4_ 8 _5_ 9 ... Why aren't the font sizes themselves used as their own accelerators? If you enable function-menu, the first letter of each function in the function menu is underlined, even if these letters are not unique. For instance, in emacs.c: _m_ain _m_ain_1 _m_ake_arg_list _m_ake_arg_list_1 _m_ake_argc_argv ... And, maybe I'm just being thick, but I don't understand what key combo is supposed to bring up the accelerated menus. On my box, neither alt-T nor meta-T nor ctrl-T brings up the _T_ools menu. What is the intented usage of the menu accelerators? Other than these aesthetic comments, 21.4.3 seems pretty stable - I've been running it for about a day without incident. One of the reasons I switched from FSFmacs to XEmacs back in 1995 or so was that XEmacs was so much more aesthetically pleasing. Let's make 21.4 the most beautiful XEmacs yet!