Re: XEmacs 21.4.6-rc1 binary kit available
>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<jan(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Jan> Applying this fix makes it work
Jan> + (gtk . (x-font-create-name x-font-create-object))
Thanks, will be in rc2.
Jan> If so, how did customize work before this?
Do you really want to hear an answer to that? :-/
Jan> That way the use of font.el can be dropped.
I know some people really don't like font.el, but having device-
specific routines without a defined API spread out over a half-dozen
files is not a very good solution either. We need some library like
font.el, if only to specify the API.
> When XEmacs 21.4.6rc1 is built on my system --with-gtk then
> default faces are setup correctly to GTK values, but when they
> are changed with a subsequent M-x customize-face or
> custom-set-faces form the change has no visible effect.
GTK support continues to be incomplete. AFAIK only Bill P understands
it at all. Bugs in the GTK support simply can't be considered
indicative of generic problems at this point.
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