Re: This will not do

>I've removed the set-face and the custom-face entries for toolbar and >gui-default. You're patch is also applied (the one which adds something >with >gui-default into x-faces.el). > Looking at your setup I think the problem is that you don't set background globally and so the background comes from the default face your changes to which doesn't get read early enough for the initial frame. This leads me to believe that you were relying on the hardcoded value of the toolbarforground color. If you wete to do Emacs*background: something I think that would have the desired effect.

I'm not sure what the solution here is. I think the behaviour is right. My inclination would be to put back the hardcoded value and remove the defaulting to the default face. But even this has problems.