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24.3; Customizing mode-line face with themes doesn't work

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From: Stuart Olsen <stuart <at> sj-olsen.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; Customizing mode-line face with themes doesn't work
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 04:44:43 -0600

Simply put, using `custom-theme-set-faces' to set the face named
`mode-line' does not work. Steps to reproduce:

- Start Emacs with `emacs -Q'.
- Do `M-x customize-create-theme'.
- Initialize the theme with basic face customizations.
- Navigate to the `mode-line' face.
- Deselect the `box' property.
- Save the new theme -- I called it `mode-line'.
- Use `M-x customize-themes' to enable the new theme.
- The `mode-line' face continues to display the `box' property.

The face customization does not appear to work even after reloading
Emacs and the new theme. So far, the `mode-line' face is the only face
with which I have had this problem. Notably, customizing the face with
`M-x customize-face' and saving straight to `custom-file' works
perfectly fine. Also notably, evaluating `(load-file
"path/to/mode-line-theme.el")' also works.


In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.6)
 of 2013-12-22 on brahms, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11405000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)

Configured using:
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M-x s u b <tab> C-a C-k b u g <tab> M-h <backspace> 
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(lambda (d) ...) quoted with ' rather than with #'
(lambda (dl) ...) quoted with ' rather than with #'
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Loading /home/sjo/.emacs.d/powerline.el (source)...done
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Message #8 received at 16658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>
To: Stuart Olsen <stuart <at> sj-olsen.com>
Cc: 16658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16658: 24.3;
 Customizing mode-line face with themes doesn't work
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:53:52 +0400

Stuart Olsen (2014-02-05 14:44 +0400) wrote:

> Simply put, using `custom-theme-set-faces' to set the face named
> `mode-line' does not work. Steps to reproduce:
>
> - Start Emacs with `emacs -Q'.
> - Do `M-x customize-create-theme'.
> - Initialize the theme with basic face customizations.
> - Navigate to the `mode-line' face.
> - Deselect the `box' property.
> - Save the new theme -- I called it `mode-line'.
> - Use `M-x customize-themes' to enable the new theme.
> - The `mode-line' face continues to display the `box' property.
>
> The face customization does not appear to work even after reloading
> Emacs and the new theme. So far, the `mode-line' face is the only face
> with which I have had this problem. Notably, customizing the face with
> `M-x customize-face' and saving straight to `custom-file' works
> perfectly fine. Also notably, evaluating `(load-file
> "path/to/mode-line-theme.el")' also works.

That's because in 24.3.1 and earlier, default face settings were applied
along with the themed ones, so you cannot see a pure theme in those
versions.  In your case, a standard spec with `:box' property is
"enabled" as well, and as the themed spec do not specify that property,
it is taken from the standard spec.  To avoid that you can set `:box'
property to nil (or turn it off with "Value Menu" in customization
buffer).

In the current trunk (and it will be in 24.4) you don't need to bother
about that: if a face is themed, standard spec do not interfere.

--
Alex Kost

Message #11 received at 16658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stuart Olsen <stuart <at> sj-olsen.com>
To: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16658: 24.3; Customizing mode-line face with themes doesn't
 work
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:27:09 -0600

On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 10:53 +0400, Alex Kost wrote:
> Stuart Olsen (2014-02-05 14:44 +0400) wrote:
> 
> > Simply put, using `custom-theme-set-faces' to set the face named
> > `mode-line' does not work. Steps to reproduce:
> >
> > - Start Emacs with `emacs -Q'.
> > - Do `M-x customize-create-theme'.
> > - Initialize the theme with basic face customizations.
> > - Navigate to the `mode-line' face.
> > - Deselect the `box' property.
> > - Save the new theme -- I called it `mode-line'.
> > - Use `M-x customize-themes' to enable the new theme.
> > - The `mode-line' face continues to display the `box' property.
> >
> > The face customization does not appear to work even after reloading
> > Emacs and the new theme. So far, the `mode-line' face is the only face
> > with which I have had this problem. Notably, customizing the face with
> > `M-x customize-face' and saving straight to `custom-file' works
> > perfectly fine. Also notably, evaluating `(load-file
> > "path/to/mode-line-theme.el")' also works.
> 
> That's because in 24.3.1 and earlier, default face settings were applied
> along with the themed ones, so you cannot see a pure theme in those
> versions.  In your case, a standard spec with `:box' property is
> "enabled" as well, and as the themed spec do not specify that property,
> it is taken from the standard spec.  To avoid that you can set `:box'
> property to nil (or turn it off with "Value Menu" in customization
> buffer).
> 
> In the current trunk (and it will be in 24.4) you don't need to bother
> about that: if a face is themed, standard spec do not interfere.
> 
> --
> Alex Kost

Thanks, that seems to resolve the problem.

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