Re: bad UI defaults

[Richard Stallman]

     * The `mode-line-inactive' face is bright compared with `mode-line',
       and different to the menu bar and scroll bar colours.  That means
       that with two windows -- my most common configuration -- the eye is
       drawn to the wrong window.

When I try it, the mode-line face has a darker background
and the mode-line-inactive face has a pale background.  I find
that the selected window's mode line stands out more.

     * The changed behaviour of the blinking cursor -- solid and empty
       box, rather than solid and absent -- makes it hard to read the
       character under the cursor, at least with the font I use
       (lucidatypewriter-medium-*-normal-*-*-120).

You can change that behavior, I believe.  I don't see that it makes
text hard to read in the default font.

     * The new mode-line order is worse IMO.

In what way worse?

      To me the time, mail status and
       battery status are important and shouldn't be shunted off the
       right.  I don't care about the line number and people who worry
       about line numbers usually aren't using Emacs properly.

I often use the line number.


If people generally agree with you on any of these points, I will
agree to change it.