From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>,
"Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>,
"Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: solarized
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:29:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR06MB45269F7F2DA30DB05EF715EE963E0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=50j9=+LwF8QxOV=1FJ05RVf+cjSwA5YU3ruKGhtY-3e_ibg@mail.gmail.com> (Tim Cross's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:09:32 +1000")
Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 20:21, Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-09-16 04:30 +03, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The solarised themse are good themes and quite popular and I think they
> > should definitely be added to the default set of themes included in Emacs.
> > Whether either of them should be the default theme is another question, but
> > it would be good to be able to just turn them on if needed.
>
> That’s why I think fiddling with defaults is kinda missing the point.
> We all have what our minds want and bodies need, and the colours of a
> program we’ll use a lot, if configurable, is one of the first things
> we’ll adjust. When I watch coding videos for example, I rarely see
> people sticking to even VS Code’s or Sublime Text’s default
> colourschemes, which are dark and ‘trendy’. So it might not be worth
> the breakage.
>
> What I meant was having solarised as one of the options in the themes included by default as opposed to making it the default
> theme.
My opinion too when I suggested it.
> In the long-term, I think an API and theme generator which makes it easier to create consistent or customize existing themes is the
> real solution. Emacs already has the most flexible infrastructure for creating themes, but working at the low level. setting each
> face individually, is slow and difficult, requiring lots of trial and error to get right. A good theme generator could make this easier,
> continuing Emacs' customizable and extensible forte.
Exactly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 3:48 solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 8:29 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 9:14 ` solarized Yuri Khan
2020-09-15 10:16 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 13:39 ` solarized Theodor Thornhill
2020-09-15 14:05 ` solarized Gerry Agbobada
2020-09-15 14:40 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 16:26 ` Theme generator Arthur Miller
2020-09-15 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 20:44 ` Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 1:49 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Tim Cross
2020-09-17 0:25 ` chad
2020-09-17 14:25 ` Theme generator Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 5:03 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 20:28 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 20:50 ` solarized Praharsh Suryadevara
2020-09-16 5:05 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-16 8:27 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-16 13:38 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 3:57 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-17 7:53 ` solarized Gian Uberto Lauri
2020-09-17 15:56 ` solarized Drew Adams
2020-09-18 4:08 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 4:08 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 16:44 ` solarized Drew Adams
2020-09-17 14:11 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 23:39 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-18 4:13 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 5:49 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-18 6:43 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 13:06 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 3:53 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 11:26 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-15 12:15 ` solarized Elias Mårtenson
2020-09-15 12:56 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-16 1:30 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-16 10:21 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-16 12:53 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 22:09 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-17 14:29 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-09-18 13:32 ` solarized Stefan Kangas
2020-09-18 15:53 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-18 16:03 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-19 4:00 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-20 20:18 ` solarized Bozhidar Batsov
2020-09-15 12:05 ` WCAG AAA and Emacs themes Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-15 20:22 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-16 18:07 solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-17 14:55 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 15:27 ` solarized Arthur Miller
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