From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>,
"Tim Cross" <theophilusx@gmail.com>,
"Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>,
"Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: solarized
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:53:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR06MB4526B279010C374C57CE16B7963F0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnw4djfkmV0QSJf7uTLcTHta3WZ3+GeoAG9NskOzuC5qw@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2020 06:32:43 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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. I am one of
>> those who almost always will need to tweak any theme because of specific
>> vision issues I have. Starting with a good base theme and tweaking from
>> there is a lot easier than having to start with a theme which is less
>> suitable. Emacs current comes with 14 'default' themes - I was just
>> suggesting adding a version of solarized-light and solarised-dark to that
>> list.
>
> I don't imagine that anyone would be against that. Why would they?
>
> But we would need the help of the theme author to ensure that copyright
> assignments are in order before it could be included in vanilla. Maybe
> someone interested in that could help look into 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.
>
> I agree, FWIW. It would be useful if someone could propose a patch or
> start working on it in a feature branch, I think.
You mean Batsov's? He is author of the Emacs Prelude, a starter kit, so
I guess he will not mind. If he is not lurking on this list himeself I
can send him a mail and ask.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-18 15:53 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 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-18 13:32 ` solarized Stefan Kangas
2020-09-18 15:53 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
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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