From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Yates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mode-line colors are too hard to distinguish Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:33:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3f14737c0909031133wb5d9e86yf87b0ef8410fd1ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <7b501d5c0908021358x317fd27ie6075de0e57452a3@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252002809 14083 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2009 18:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Emacs-Devel devel To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 03 20:33:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MjH7X-0004gO-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:33:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjH7W-0004j7-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjH7R-0004j2-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjH7N-0004io-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38183 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjH7N-0004il-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:48704) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjH7M-0004m7-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: by vws8 with SMTP id 8so171787vws.14 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:33:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=HA2Se2x3PIcuyuB9xvbXkXlaaOf7RAp2/c9Va8iJ1+8=; b=DhcRoLFSSjebqQTKea+VBqsdL4XZHrtrye4O889kBdzfu6LQa2xnJKXhDh+kbvBppz hfAvsR5pO52scC/M3RwwlYRjerdGq1tF+zHo1y0LZjEistUn6ONX8gYy8VHxVmcHQ06V 7GeeAYoTdG+wJC/6DhUnCPRGNHr1TlHDuHK6o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=oZ4HBZ8odcwXlVMC7Pp8zO2ZRYvJx02DECJQoVmljjfg8vmnrYsVsCPTwhssTbSe9d 95M9HvkFp09KB0EJyDwZrSABIPvYSFQVonB/QxblzVeVXTH41HBsEAv7V7k48tnhpy0m RkyOvc+muW+VESrDtuQ58KdNNzy0pU1eGxrB0= Original-Received: by 10.220.108.106 with SMTP id e42mr1501119vcp.77.1252002785437; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:33:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7b501d5c0908021358x317fd27ie6075de0e57452a3@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 04caab17fdcf5daa X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115009 Archived-At: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote: > Remember that many window managers don't have any such colors at all, > e.g. XMonad, ratpoison or StumpWM (AFAIK). That does invalidate the virtue of defaulting to those colors when they are available and ascertainable. Nor does using a tiling window manager preclude the existence of some amount of theming, e.g. my '/John Yates' polished Gnome bar (0.8) ' on XMonad's http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive page. I already go to some trouble manually to match my active and inactive mode line colors to my window manager's active and inactive title bar colors. Doing so definitely makes emacs at least look more fully integrated. /john