On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 06:01:59PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The recent proposal to use dark mode by default brings up a technical
> question: I thought Emacs's default foreground and background colors
> were not hardcoded by Emacs but were taken from the user's "general"
> config (i.e. the desktop environment).
> 
> Does this mechanism fail to work for some reason, or have desktop
> environments just stopped providing that info?

Yikes!

So it turns out, after all that discussion (what /is/ better these
days, anyway? Dark or light?) that Emacs was doing the right thing,
after all?

Hm.

Cheers
 - t