Re: bad UI defaults

[Luc Teirlinck]

Richard Stallman wrote:

       I have no strong opinion on the subject.  Maybe one could just point
       out more clearly in (emacs)Lucid Resources that `shadowThickness' and
       maybe `background' are the things to customize for people having these
       kinds of problems.

   Could you write a patch to do that?

Here it is.  I am also suggesting a small, completely unrelated,
change.  Namely, in the description of `editres', refer to the man
page for more details.  That is because, in my experience, the short
explanation in the Emacs manual is, by itself, insufficient for
efficient use of `editres'.  One really has to take a look at the man
page if one is going to use that program (in my opinion).


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cd ~/
diff -c /home/teirllm/xresources.old.texi /home/teirllm/xresources.texi
*** /home/teirllm/xresources.old.texi   Tue Sep  2 08:09:26 2003
--- /home/teirllm/xresources.texi       Fri Sep  5 20:14:28 2003
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--- 142,148 ----
  @samp{Show Resource Box} from the @samp{Commands} menu.  This displays
  a list of all the meaningful X resources and allows you to edit them.
  Changes take effect immediately if you click on the @samp{Apply} button.
+ (See the @code{editres} man page for more details.)
  
  @node Table of Resources
  @appendixsec Table of X Resources for Emacs
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  @item horizontalSpacing
  Horizontal spacing in pixels between items.  Default is 3.
  @item verticalSpacing
! Vertical spacing in pixels between items.  Default is 1.
  @item arrowSpacing
  Horizontal spacing between the arrow (which indicates a submenu) and
  the associated text.  Default is 10.
  @item shadowThickness
! Thickness of shadow line around the widget.
  @item margin
! The margin of the menu bar, in characters.  The default of 4 makes the
! menu bar appear like the LessTif/Motif one.
  @end table
  
  @node LessTif Resources
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  @item horizontalSpacing
  Horizontal spacing in pixels between items.  Default is 3.
  @item verticalSpacing
! Vertical spacing in pixels between items.  Default is 2.
  @item arrowSpacing
  Horizontal spacing between the arrow (which indicates a submenu) and
  the associated text.  Default is 10.
  @item shadowThickness
! Thickness of shadow line around the widget.  Default is 1.
! 
! Also determines the thickness of shadow lines around other objects,
! for instance 3D buttons and arrows.  If you have the impression that
! the arrows in the menus do not stand out clearly enough or that the
! difference between ``in'' and ``out'' buttons is difficult to see, set
! this to 2.  If you have no problems with visibility, the default
! probably looks better.  The background color may also have some effect
! on the contrast.
  @item margin
! The margin of the menu bar, in characters.  Default is 1.
  @end table
  
  @node LessTif Resources

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