On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:58 PM John Little <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 2:05:04 PM UTC+13, Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote: > > Vim on xterm has the 2px-width border > > Not on my xterm on KDE. ovk's mod now makes gvim consistent with vim in an > xterm, and vim in a konsole, when I use the same font as gvim. > xterm built by myself from source shows the 2px-width border, while I'm not sure if xterm on KDE is patched or not. > > Personally, I think any UI should follow a UI guideline written... > > It seems to me that the guideline you refer to is very old, and has long > been superseded in modern DEs, which support configurability of these > elements, or minimises them. > Actually, in my mind, "a UI guideline" refers to one of modern desktop environments such as GNOME or KDE, and I don't know any of "very old" guidelines existing. So I'd appreciate it if you would kindly tell me what guideline you thought I referred to and give me the link of a guideline "which supports configurability of these elements"? > > Therefore, it's okay for me that Windows Gvim has no border around the > text area if that fits recent Windows design. Why should we, however, > import that design into UNIX-like systems at the cost of inconsistency > between Vim and Gvim on a single platform? > > If consistency between vim and gvim is a goal, all that hard-coding of > sizes and widths needs to be removed so that the user's themes and styles > and so on are allowed to work. The present code guarantees inconsistency, > at least on my screen. Of course, it can't be as easy as that, and I am by > no means even slightly proficient with this stuff. > It looks to me that xterm on KDE is different in border width from xterm built from source, and hence the said inconsistency appears to come from the desktop environment, not from Vim's source code. > Regards, John Little > Regards, Kazunobu Kuriyama > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
