Re: can't set both mode-line color and default frame font?

[Richard Stallman]

    Not reliably, i.e. 100% correct all the time, but we can make a good guess. 
    The resources set by the GNOME settings manager are quite specific (like 
    Emacs.scroll-bar.attributeBackground, Emacs.scroll-bar.attributeForeground) 
    and it it unlikely a user sets those.  So if we find that those resources 
the 
    Gnome settings manager sets are set, we can with some confidence conclude 
that 
    the user did not set them.

    But what should we do then?  Ignore mode-line resources?

We would not want to simply ignore them, but we might want to
give them different priority compared with other kinds of color
specifications.

However, if we always give face customization precedence over
X resources, then we don't need to disinguish GNOME's X resources
from other X resources.