Re: Back from 28.0.90 to master

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

Hi Stefan,

tested on a macOS. My -1 goes because their is a lot of movement in the 
modeline:

The %% and the ** flags have different width. The same happens with the 
numbers, so if I have the column number activated, moving column by column 
creates a <joke> belly-dance efect</joke> that despite the joke is quite 
unpleasant...

So if the mode-line doesn't have things that change too much in time, it may be 
assumable, but when you need to show things in the modeline that change often, 
the mode line will be most probably trembling like a jelly-cake.

Best, /PA

Enviado desde mi iPad

> El 10 dic 2021, a las 14:15, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> escribió:
> 
> Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Going back to master I have encountered the "mode-line" surprise. Why is
>> the default face for the mode line now variable pitch? It looks ugly to me.
>> If there is a vote on this, I'll be definitely '-1'. However, it's nice
>> that we had to try it. Thanks for that.
> 
> You aren't providing any details about your machine or the fonts used.
> It seems to me that the default variable width font in some situations
> is not ideal (as in the screenshot Eli provided for his MS-Windows
> machine).
> 
> Instead of protesting the switch based on that, I'd suggest we improve
> the way we pick the font so that we end up with something acceptable (or
> even good).