Re: Faces applies to new frames

[Stefan Monnier]

> Maybe the facespec stuff is necessary (mainly becuase facespecs can
> encode frame-type specific conditional settings), but face-attributes
> and frame-paramter seem to cover roughly the same ground (with
> frame-attributes being generally nicer and more functiona AFAICS).  Are
  ^^^^^
  face

> frame-parameter settings ever actually necessary, other than for
> historical compatibility with emacs 19/20?

AFAIK, the main situation where setting face attributes via
frame-parameters is useful/used is for things like
minibuffer-frame-alist (where I use it to give a special font and
background to my minibuffer-only frame(s)), and special-display-regexps.


-- Stefan