GNU bug report logs - #57372
no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font configuration

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Message #38 received at 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: tom <at> logand.com, 57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57372: no-toolkit menu popups do not respect emacs font
 configuration
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:21:37 +0300

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: tom <at> logand.com,  57372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:01:42 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > They do, they do.  The look nothing like menus.  They look like text
> > panes.
> 
> Still better than what the current status quo for no toolkit builds is,
> which is a giant text pane, but without anti-aliasing.

"Still better" and "good enough" aren't necessarily the same.

> > And then the user has some defaults for frame parameters that break
> > this, yes?
> 
> You can't break `override-redirect'; besides, we could simply ignore
> those defaults on menu frames.

As soon as people understand these are frames, you're done: they will
want every frame-related feature to work there.

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