On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:28:22 -0700, Edward O'Connor wrote: >Here's one vote for leaving the default as it is. I love how Emacs >is a consistent environment across the various operating systems it >runs on, and would much prefer it for the default Dired behavior to >continue to be the same across all supported systems.
With all of RMS's push to get the current, little-used theme code debugged and integrated I keep feeling that it simply will not address what I intuitively feel a theme concept should provide. Edward's comment quoted above provides a perfect case in point. Historically, the Emacs community has provided default behavior that catered to its entrenched userbase. The answer to nearly any suggestion that such behavior might be awkward / unfamiliar / jarring to new users, especially those on platforms held in low regard by the entrenched userbase, is that Emacs is customizable. Essentially a "Let them eat cake" attitude. The learning curve and shear volume of customization needed to make Emacs feel comfortable to a new Windows user (who may very well some day in the future run Emacs on *nix, but today has no interest in investing effort in such a potentiality) is daunting. My notion of a theme is not a named collection of configuration settings. Rather it is an expression of high-level intent: - as much as possible behave like Window / MacOS / *nix - underline clickable links - give me single frame behavior vs something like Drew's OneOnOne This is not unprecedented. There already seems to be a bit of this kind of mindset in the attempt to provide light-on-dark and dark-on-light default faces. /john _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
