bug#16658: 24.3; Customizing mode-line face with themes doesn't work

[Stuart Olsen]

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.