Problems with custom-set-faces on emacs 23.1

[Piotr Kalinowski]

The following pertains to emacs 23.1 downloaded in binary form from gnu servers and Windows XP SP3.

When using color-theme default face should not be customised at all using custom-set-faces. When I did use it I had all sorts of various problems:

* After init 80x24 frame size was restored despite changing default-frame-alist to list 120x50 size.
* Some color themes were applied only partly if loaded through init file (like hober or robin-hood).
* In case of some themes (like color-theme-ld-dark) speedbar was opened with theme only partially applied.

This should be either fixed or mentioned clearly in documentation.

WORKAROUND:
One should use the following form instead:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "blah" ..)

This is ok and there are no problems then.