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#57372
no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font configuration
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Message #122 received at 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom <at> logand.com>
> Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:21:43 +0200
>
> On Thu 25 Aug 2022 at 09:42, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> >> This font size change happens on demand, when a key is pressed.
> >
> > Do you really need to do this frequently? If so, why is that? why not
> > set the size that is convenient for you, and more or less forget about
> > it?
>
> Frequency is not that relevant. Convenience is relevant. It should
> happen after key press.
This is an exaggeration, and as such, not useful. It is unreasonable
to expect everything be done at a keypress. Infrequent operations can
be less convenient than frequent ones, because that inconvenience
basically happens once in a blue moon.
> It is not something I invented, it is important use-case and pretty
> much essential part of GUI programs these days. Try for example C-+
> and C-- in firefox or xfce4-terminal.
When I do that in Firefox, the displayed text is resized, but not the
menus or the tool bar.
> > I guess I don't understand why one would need to change the size
> > frequently, especially the size of the menu items, which basically
> > stay unchanged.
>
> We already discussed several issues with the X resources based text:
>
> - The font configuration is alien to emacs with many issues and downsides.
> - It is not possible to change it dynamically.
That's nowhere near a catastrophe for such an infrequent setting.
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