From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75645 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert D. Crawford" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus faces Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:40:30 -0600 Message-ID: <87ipxvs5ip.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294767657 6846 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2011 17:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23996=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 11 18:40:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PciDE-00016d-Ie for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PciDD-000702-A5 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:40:51 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PciDC-0006zx-Cb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:40:50 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PciDB-0003yk-AC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:40:49 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PciD9-0002uc-0Q for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:40:47 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PciD8-00012F-9M for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from 99-3-91-133.lightspeed.nsvltn.sbcglobal.net ([99.3.91.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from robdcraw by 99-3-91-133.lightspeed.nsvltn.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:40:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 99-3-91-133.lightspeed.nsvltn.sbcglobal.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ldf/ojVWeqKcVU0LpxCMgFc9P4c= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75645 Archived-At: Sorry for not getting this in the thread... I can't seem to find it in the summary buffer. > Gnus defines a large number of faces for the Group, Summary, and > Article buffers. This makes it a pain for those who want impose a > uniform color scheme on their Emacs, who must chage every one of these > faces. Agreed. > It would be better for the Gnus faces to :inherit from the standard > Emacs font-lock faces. After all, font-lock highlighting is not used > in Gnus. Thoughts? I don't agree with this. Being partially sighted I rely on the faces (and the change in the voice of my tts engine) to differentiate between things like the person's name and the title of the post in the summary buffer and the depth of quoting in the article buffer. I do, however, realize I am in a *very* small minority of users and that must be taken into consideration for the greater good. rdc -- Robert D. Crawford robdcraw@gmail.com