Re: The color of a header line and window selection.

[Jan D.]

> > Yes.  When Emacs is compiled with GTK, the menu bar and the tool bar
> > have the light color of the header line and the mode line of a
> > non-selected window.  When Emacs is compiled with LessTif, the menu
> > bar and the tool bar have the dark color of the mode line of a
> > selected window.  I didn't check the Athena toolkit, but if memory
> > serves me, it behaves like LessTif in this respect.
> 
> I think the similarity of those colors is accidental more than
> anything else.
> 

This is true.  The default for Motif is a dark gray and fot GTK a very
light gray.  It is just by chance that the default for the modeline
of a selected window is close to the default for Motif/Lesstif.

> > I think it's better to make the colors of the menu bar and tool bar
> > the same for all toolkits.
> 
> If set explicitly, that should already be the case.
> As for the default, I'd say the default color for the Gtk menu should
> be the same as for other Gtk applications rather than the same as
> the Motif menu (and same thing applies to other combinations of
> Gtk/Motif/Lucid).

For GTK this is a must if themes shall work.

        Jan D.