From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Copley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11032: 24.0.94; illegible mode-line text (in dark themes?) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:58:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vcj8o3ze.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339343983 5357 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2012 15:59:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11032@debbugs.gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 17:59:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SdkYC-0004tO-VN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:59:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53858 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdkYC-0008PI-U8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdkY9-0008PC-Kd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdkY7-0006NJ-R8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdkY7-0006NF-Kc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:59:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SdkaY-0001sX-64 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:02:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Copley Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:02:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11032 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11032-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11032.13393440927186 (code B ref 11032); Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:02:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11032) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Jun 2012 16:01:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36834 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sdka3-0001rr-Lq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com ([209.85.210.44]:39829) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sdka1-0001rh-Jt for 11032@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: by dacx6 with SMTP id x6so4047755dac.3 for <11032@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:58:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=v1L1wKPzuDKchcjh8JLIjLVPn6UJQkfv7tGTkYRcEKk=; b=XGN+LKlsoeXdGDDT5iNmieh9O2Nsns8C5qvA+NkoSNOmiIjS50gPoPLCtCCsNH8ZKh mg23P1dtO6rwlFEWeL6bgcGWYKd9TSyhGL+1DG0EnrCJsPpDYMUPOcx6PrN+est0kTLj +P2W1eG9b/g3ONPmlGGr8STLYmUGRAnZCVv5u4uqHtZmlEaaw0hBwtbnvqsnvn75i0DX 0epS53NlQWV3+8ZOmXmA0SWheyXETC0bnSqTbCt9MtB6UOr3AK2lYxzjGJEA3KFmC+Lo RHjmExqNjFmjgXK4b7KwDS5O5DhmNfNgg6bmlabtB/gT6bwOmmOL5Ydb2UfiGqjB+EKB FqPg== Original-Received: by 10.68.219.166 with SMTP id pp6mr17341783pbc.35.1339343937145; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.143.62.5 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:58:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:60842 Archived-At: On 4 June 2012 13:44, Richard Copley wrote: > On 3 June 2012 15:38, Chong Yidong wrote: >> Richard Copley writes: >> >>> Some faces are illegible if used on the mode-line when the default >>> background is dark but the mode line background is light. (Or at >>> least, this can happen in a dark theme.) >>> >>> For example (from emacs -Q): >>> >>> Set the theme to "tsdh-dark". >>> M-x compile RET M-n dir RET # "dir" should succeed >>> C-x o =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # activate *Compilati= on* >> >> Thanks for the bug report. =A0I have defined some new faces for >> compilation messages on the mode line, and tweaked the default face >> attributes and the built-in themes so that these messages are legible on >> the mode-line. > > [Re-sending with the appropriate cc: line, and with apologies to Chong > Yidong for the duplicate email.] > > Thank you. In the tsdh-dark theme, the successful exit status is now > much more legible on an active mode line. However, it is much less > legible on an inactive mode line. The rest of the mode line text (in > grey on grey) is also hard to read. I really think the bug is that the > wrong light-/dark-background version of the face is chosen, and no > amount of compromise with face colours will fix that. (Perhaps it > could be made a convention that a dark-background theme must have a > dark-background mode-line?) Sorry, I hadn't pulled new revisions when I thought I had, so I was not looking at the new faces. The new colours work very nicely. Please ignore my last comments.