Re: color.el

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I thought that `hexrgb.el' and `color-lab.el' were going to be merged.
>
> I've merged the two libraries now, moved `read-color' to it, and
> cleaned things up (e.g. doc).  When there was overlap I kept the best
> version (e.g. most precise or most general).  I did not include
> anything from `eyedropper.el' (e.g.  for `read-color').

Thanks.  I'll start applying some parts of the patch shortly, but here
are a few points worth discussing:

1. Renaming color-rgb->hsv to color-rgb-to-hsv, etc.

   The latter is a bit more in line with other Emacs Lisp function
   names, though we do have a few named "X->Y".

   Any thoughts from Emacs developers?  I am not sure myself.

2. Returning HUE in [0,1], rather than radians, by default.

   If we do this, I'd rather not add a separate *-radians function; we
   should just decide on whether Emacs should represent hue as [0,1], as
   radians, or as [0,360], and use that everywhere.

   For what it's worth, the Gimp, the Java color library, and the
   Eclipse API all use [0,360].  Maybe we should do follow suit.  Any
   objections?

3. The functions for incrementing color components don't look very
   useful to me.  Surely it's simple enough for a Lisp program to
   increment a member of a list.  Is there any real world example of a
   program using this part of hexrgb?