[macemacsjp-english 606] Re: MacEmacs Aesthetics?

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Seiji Zenitani zenit****@mac*****
Sun Jul 2 03:30:48 JST 2006


Hi,

On 2006/07/01, at 5:47, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>
> I'm new to the list, so please forgive me if this is off-topic.
>
> I've been lobbying several people at Apple to bundle a GUI version  
> of Emacs in Mac OS X.  They've rejected the current builds as not  
> being "Aqua" enough.  Specifically, they had four complaints:
>
> 1.  The menu items use emacs-style parenthesized "C-X" and "S-X"  
> keyboard shortcuts, instead of the canonical, right-justified "^X"  
> and "[up arrow]S"
>
> 2.  The toolbar is in a different color than the window bar (not  
> integral, like modern apps)
>
> 3.  The toolbar icons looks more like Mac OS 9 than Mac OS X
>
> 4.  The default font looks more like something from Windows than,  
> say, Terminal.app
>
> These all seem like they should be simple to fix, but I have no  
> idea how.  Is anyone here familiar with how to modify those aspects  
> of Emacs?
>
For 1-3, I think we have to wait for Cocoa-based Emacs.app (Emacs 23).

See http://emacs-app.sourceforge.net/ for details.


-- Seiji




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