Re: bad UI defaults

[Richard Stallman]

    Actually I think the default size should be taken from the user's
    environment, if it's possible to determine that, e.g. by looking at
    XTerm.font and whatever Gnome & al do (for a reasonable value of `&
    al').

Following whatever convention is normally followed by other
applications is probably an idea worth trying.  However, shouldn't
Emacs look at Emacs.font (as it does now) rather than at XTerm.font?