[Aquamacs-devel] Question about icons in Aquamacs 2.0

[David Reitter]

Yes, I think that's a bug in AUCTeX.  They don't initialize their toolbar unless tool-bar-mode is on, and that is an insufficient way to check for the presence of a toolbar.  I reported this a while ago.
- D

On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:

> On 7/29/10 Jul 29 -5:14 PM, David Reitter wrote:
>> On Jul 29, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>> 
>>> I have just (finally) updated to Aquamacs 2.0 and it seems very spiffy!
>>> 
>>> However, I find that one thing is worse:  the tool bar in Auctex.
>>> 
>>> I used to have a toolbar that had all the specific actions that I really
>>> wanted to do when editing Latex, including "Latex," "Bibtex," "View," etc.
>> 
>> You should have those - at least I get them.  Try right-clicking in the toolbar to customize it.   The default toolbar should be adapted to the current major mode.
>> If that doesn't work, I would look at whether AUCTeX is loaded properly (is the menu correct, or rather minimal?).  Start without customizations...  
>> 
>> Let me know when you know more!
> 
> OK, I know more, but I'm still puzzled.
> 
> I forgot that what I had done, because I am a keyboard guy, I turned off
> all the toolbars.  And then I turned ON the toolbars only for latex
> buffers, because even though I'm a keyboard guy, I never managed to
> figure out how to issue the latex, bibtex, and view commands through the
> keyboard...
> 
> So my emacs configuration has the following in it:
> 
> ;;;---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;;; Controlling the tool bar
> ;;;---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (tool-bar-mode 0)                       ;in general, we want it /off/
> (defun add-tool-bar-to-selected-frame ()
>  "Sometimes we'd like the toolbar only on specific frames."
>  (interactive)
>  (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) '((tool-bar-lines . 1))))
> (defun remove-tool-bar-from-selected-frame ()
>  "Sometimes we'd like the toolbar only on specific frames."
>  (interactive)
>  (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) '((tool-bar-lines . 0))))
> (defun latex-frame-p ()
>  "Is this frame one that's displaying a buffer in latex mode?"
>  (eq
>   (buffer-local-value 'major-mode
>                       (window-buffer (frame-selected-window
> (selected-frame))))
>   'latex-mode))
> (defun add-tool-bar-to-latex-frames ()
>  (if (latex-frame-p)
>      (add-tool-bar-to-selected-frame)
>      (remove-tool-bar-from-selected-frame)))
> (add-hook 'window-configuration-change-hook
>          'add-tool-bar-to-latex-frames)
> 
> In aquamacs 1.9, this would add the right toolbar back to the latex
> frames.  However, in aquamacs 2.0, this seems to add only the /default/
> toolbar to the aquamacs frames, not the latex-specific one.  :-(
> 
> Does anyone have a clue about how I could modify this so that it works
> for the new aquamacs?
> 
> Or (as seems quite possible), am I going about this all wrong, and
> should I replace it with something far better that will achieve the same
> purpose?
> 
> thanks!
> r