From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Jason Rumney'" <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: highlight failed part of isearch input
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:12:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003601c87743$1659d7c0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C20508.3050708@gnu.org>
> > I don't think we should pick colors for UI design (e.g.
> > defaults) based on their names, but based on their properties.
> > Pick the right color, regardless of what convention we use
> > to name it.
>
> Colors are to the eye as musical notes are to the ear. The ones that
> look pleasing to the eye have names, and you'd be well advised to use
> them. Defining colors for a UI using hex RGB numbers is the same as
> composing music using frequencies.
Do as you like, but that, I'm afraid, is pure nonsense.
The part about "the ones that look pleasing to the eye", in particular.
Sounds like Joseph II's "too many notes" comment about the Marriage of
Figaro.
Again, do as you like. Pick "Hello Kitty Pink" if you like - quite pleasing,
and it should be recognizable from Xinjiang to Xixuanbanna, the long way
'round.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-10 3:03 highlight failed part of isearch input Drew Adams
2007-07-10 13:21 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-10 14:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-10 23:22 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-11 0:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-11 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 5:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-11 6:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 6:26 ` Miles Bader
2007-07-11 7:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 7:15 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-11 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-11 19:20 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-07-11 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-11 23:17 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-12 13:01 ` Robert J. Chassell
[not found] ` <E1I968h-0002xA-VO@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-07-12 23:16 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-13 18:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-14 23:05 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-15 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-23 4:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-14 23:07 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-15 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-12 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-11 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-11 21:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-10 14:07 ` Masatake YAMATO
2007-07-10 14:37 ` ding susceptibility (was: highlight failed part of isearch input) Drew Adams
2007-07-10 22:01 ` highlight failed part of isearch input Richard Stallman
2007-07-10 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-10 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22 23:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-23 18:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-23 21:29 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-23 22:37 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-23 23:33 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-24 2:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-24 22:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-24 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-24 17:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-11 23:31 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-12 0:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-12 0:36 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-12 0:54 ` Bastien
2008-02-16 19:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-23 19:47 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-23 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-23 21:55 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-23 23:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-24 17:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 23:15 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 0:01 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-25 7:59 ` Bastien
2008-02-24 23:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-24 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-24 23:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-25 0:00 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-25 0:12 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-02-25 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 23:05 ` Drew Adams
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