unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Jared Finder <jfinder@crypticstudios.com>
Cc: 'Dan Nicolaescu' <dann@ics.uci.edu>, 2454@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2454: 23.0.90; Colored Compilation Status is hard on the eyes
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:04:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsbfha9y.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A60FF1A61CBE@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com> (Jared Finder's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:10:49 -0800")

> Sure.
>
> I'm referring to the color used by the compilation status in the mode
> line (one of :exit[0], :exit[SOMETHING ELSE], or :run).  The orange
> and green used here hurt. The red is passable, but still not good.
>
> I believe the mode-line and mode-line inactive faces contribute the
> background color and compilation-error, compilation-warning, and
> compilation-info contribute the foreground color.  The problem is that
> they don't contrast well with the mode-line's default bg colors.
> Orange on Gray75 hurts my eyes, as does Green3 on Gray75, or Red1
> on Gray75.
>
> I'd suggest using darker foreground colors, so they don't hurt
> my eyes.

Or maybe using a light background (white) for these messages in the
mode-line, i.e. to use exacly the same default foreground/background
they currently have in a compilation/grep buffer.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/






  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200902251750.n1PHofPD012730@rodan.ics.uci.edu>
2009-02-24  1:17 ` bug#2454: 23.0.90; Colored Compilation Status is hard on the eyes Jared Finder
2009-02-24  2:31   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-02-24 18:10     ` Jared Finder
2009-02-24 20:04       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-02-25 17:55   ` bug#2454: marked as done (23.0.90; Colored Compilation Status is hard on the eyes) Emacs bug Tracking System
     [not found]   ` <handler.2454.D2454.123558425721593.notifdone@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
2009-02-25 18:25     ` bug#2454: closed by Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> (Re: bug#2454: 23.0.90; " Jared Finder
2009-02-25 21:45       ` bug#2454: 23.0.90; Colored Compilation Status is hard on the eyes Juri Linkov
2009-02-25 21:47         ` Jared Finder

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87wsbfha9y.fsf@jurta.org \
    --to=juri@jurta.org \
    --cc=2454@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com \
    --cc=dann@ics.uci.edu \
    --cc=jfinder@crypticstudios.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).