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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>,
	Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: John Sullivan <johns@fsf.org>,
	johnw@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [Announce] The new Emacs homepage is online!
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:20:39 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7de76737-d674-489c-b754-cc0b7e9ede05@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8lh2dxl.fsf@dustycloud.org>

> having emacs screenshots with
> not-the-default theme would help dramatically in indicating how
> beautiful Emacs can be.  I think the default theme, while "useful" in
> its minimalism, doesn't convey that.
> 
> If I look at:
>   http://tsyesika.se/guix-desktop.png
>   http://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs_hy_and_py.png
>   http://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs_screenshot.png
>   http://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs_wombat.png
> 
> it feels very clear to me and others I've shown what *potential* there
> is for a beautiful emacs.  I don't get that impression by showing them
> stock black-on-white emacs.
> 
> Even just inverting to white-on-black would look much better.

Seriously?  Beauty, and eye-strain, are apparently in the eye
of the beholder - at least in part.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eye+strain+reading+online+light+dark+background+screen
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=best+background+color+for+reading+on+computer

No, no need to reply.  Suffice it to say that not everyone would
agree with you.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-29 16:38 [Announce] The new Emacs homepage is online! Nicolas Petton
2016-03-29 16:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-29 16:48   ` Nicolas Petton
2016-03-29 17:01     ` Nicolas Petton
2016-03-29 17:30       ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-29 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-29 17:01   ` Nicolas Petton
2016-03-29 17:01 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-29 17:08   ` Nicolas Petton
2016-03-29 17:15     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-29 17:43 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2016-03-29 18:06   ` Paul Michael Reilly
2016-03-29 18:08 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-03-29 21:04 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-29 21:20   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-03-29 22:02     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-29 22:35       ` Drew Adams
2016-03-29 22:51         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-31  8:38           ` Nicolas Petton
2016-03-31  9:01             ` Christian Kruse
2016-03-31  9:42               ` Nicolas Petton
2016-03-30  1:25         ` Chad Brown
2016-03-30 17:07     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-30  0:27 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-03-30 17:05   ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-25 12:35   ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-25 22:23     ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-03-30  7:13 ` Joost Kremers
2016-03-30 13:57 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-03-30 14:00   ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-03-30 14:09 ` Bastien Guerry
2016-03-31 12:34 ` Lluís
2016-03-31 12:40   ` Nicolas Petton

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