From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:52:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y2lkb6kb.fsf@gmail.com> <9A4FA038-CCFD-45DF-8B57-E348AFF951D9@gmail.com> <87sgbsb0eb.fsf@gmail.com> <20200909165723.kdnwicwvplmezusr@Ergus> <20200910102000.2t6tsju745xutg7u@Ergus> <20200910110832.ko66gqnqo4l664d6@Ergus> <874ko314mx.fsf@elephly.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31887"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, arthur.miller@live.com, ghe@sdf.org, tecosaur@gmail.com To: Ricardo Wurmus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 16:53:26 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kH6u6-0008Db-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:53:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kH6u5-0000OX-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kH6tJ-0007uJ-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kH6tI-0000CR-7F; Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kH6tH-0008TJ-L0; Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:52:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <874ko314mx.fsf@elephly.net> (message from Ricardo Wurmus on Sat, 12 Sep 2020 15:55:18 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255362 Archived-At: > […] Maybe there could > be a color guidance and framework for extensions to use and follow to > offer more visual coherence as well as ease of modding and choosing a > color theme. I think Batsov's Solarized makes a good candidate to turn > it into such framework. I support this motion. Solarized is very easy on the eyes, available for many other applications, and it is the result of a simple set of harmonized colours that are optimized for equal contrast. Solarized is a good selection and maybe even a good default (other programs might use it, and having a coherent selection of colors is always nice). But what someone finds easy, someone else will find hard so we shouldn't make such generalised claims that something is very easy on the eyes e.g., I find the "pink-ish" background hard on my eyes (despite liking that color palette).