Re: Gnus faces

["Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>]

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

>>>>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
> TH> (I think that in times of fast internet connections, the levels are
> TH> the least important thing.  I'd even go that far and remove their
> TH> different defaults.  Feel free to disagree.)
>
> Levels make a useful substitute for topics on slow boxen (on my laptop
> topics are entirely unusable).  Also, even when the connection is local
> the remote servers can be slow enough for levels to make sense.

For me levels have nothing to do with speed at all. I simply use them to
distinguish between different "importance levels", i.e. how often I want
to update them. 

> On on the thread’s topic (pun-filled, aren’t we?), if changes are
> made, please make it easy to keep the current colours.

+1

Plus don't lose any customisability currently present. I really don't
see how the myriad Gnus faces could be mapped onto the standard
font-lock faces. Tassilo's proposal to rationalise the Gnus faces to
inherit from each other where appropriate to make them more easily
customisable as a whole seems to make more sense.

  Štěpán