Re: can't set both mode-line color and default frame font?

[Jan Djärv]

Drew Adams skrev:
> > However, if we always give face customization precedence over
> > X resources, then we don't need to disinguish GNOME's X resources
> > from other X resources.

I think Emacs reads "X resources" from the registry in W32 (w32reg.c).

> I don't have an opinion about this, and I'm usually on Windows, which has no
> X resources.
>
> It sounded logical to me when I read that customization should take
> precedence over X resources. However, it just occurred to me that it might
> also be useful for it to be the other way around.
>
> A user might have the same `custom-file' on different platforms, and
> different X resources for various platforms would then modulate the
> behavior, if they took precedence over the `custom-file' settings.
> Otherwise, to get the same effect, the user would need different
> `custom-file's.

This is a very unlikely scenario.  Much easier to just customize faces in 
Emacs on each platform.

        Jan D.