From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Custom themes Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:33:53 -0400 Message-ID: <874ocmyoku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87r5fxnwcp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hhmvnxr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbgqjcwr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878w20hiu6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287254048 12871 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2010 18:34:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 16 20:34:07 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P7Ba0-0001NJ-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:34:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P7BZz-0001wp-Qt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44465 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P7BZs-0001vc-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7BZr-0002ns-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po16.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.72]:44610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7BZr-0002ng-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (173-14-147-246-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.14.147.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po16.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o9GIXred008664 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E8DDC160A31; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:33:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:47:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:131763 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: >> Another alternative is to put the theme files in etc/, but that's not >> good either, since Lisp files ought to go in lisp/. > > Still, IMO is the best option. It seems silly to look for theme files > in all the load path when it looks likely that many people will have > them (and prefer them) in their own directories. They are lisp, but > I'd bet most people will think of them as customization, not programs. > > I think we should decouple the themes from the load path and provide a > themes-load-path (...whatever the name..) variable. I see your point. I've moved the built-in themes directory into etc/.