Re: Can we make border width zero by default?

[Chong Yidong]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> While looking into bug 5848, I experimented with border width (not
> internal border width).  The default is currently 2 pixels.  I'd like
> to set that to zero.
>
> The reasons are that some window managers (metacity at least)
> overrides this and sets zero anyway.  Other window managers like
> compiz make the border on two sides transparent and black on the other
> two.  Probably this is some effect applications can take advantage of,
> but for Emacs it just looks strange (see screen shot).
>
> For the Gtk+ port, border width has no effect, it can't be specified
> in Gtk+-functions and it is hardcoded to 0 in the Gtk+ code.
>
> Any thoughts?

Fine by me (for the trunk).  I don't know the reasoning behind the
current 2px default.