Re: toolbars

[Gerd Moellmann]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> > >   1) What is wierd narrow region at the bottom of the toolbar, separated
> > >      from the main toolbar by a line?
> > 
> > This is kind of a consequence of Emacs still being column/line-based.
> > Frame and window sizes must be multiples of the frame font's
> > width/height.  The tool bar is an Emacs window, and the ``separator''
> > is actually the partially visible next tool bar line.
> 
> It would look a lot better without it...

Yup.  I think shaking out this ugly (part of) column/line orientation
is something important to fix in 21.2.  It's not easy, though.  Anyone
interested in giving it a try?

> The odd thing is that the icons seem be vertically centered without
> respect to the extra vestigial line, which I wouldn't expect from it
> being a partially-displayed extra line (you can easily see this if
> you increase the :height of the default face to 360 or something).
> 
> If I narrow the window so that the toolbar gets displayed as multiple
> lines, all but the last real line get displayed as `normal' height lines
> (i.e., that exactly fit the icon height), and the last real line is much
> taller, but *still* with the narrow vestigial toolbar-line following.
> The toolbar icons on the last toolbar line are centered vertically as if
> the vestigial extra line were part of the extra-tall last line...
> It's wierd, anyway.

That's probably some bug somewhere.  I'll try to fix it.