From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Lilja Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Color themes Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:57:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874pbrcpos.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204336695 12462 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2008 01:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 01:58:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 01 02:58:41 2008 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 4.50) id 1JVGzn-00071g-Jp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:58:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVGzH-0006QR-6j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:58:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVGzC-0006Pq-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVGzA-0006PO-FV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVGzA-0006PH-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVGz9-0002qQ-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JVGz4-0000MN-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:57:54 +0000 Original-Received: from cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se ([85.194.49.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:57:54 +0000 Original-Received: from mindcooler by cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:57:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <874pbrcpos.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90945 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > Many of you are probably aware of a package called color-theme.el, > currently maintained by Xavier Maillard. This package provides a > relatively easy way to choose from a list of pre-selected "color > themes" for font-lock keywords. I think this kind of functionality > would be good. For new users who dislike the default color palette, > there's currently no easy way to choose a different palette. > > Ideally, there should be a submenu in the menu-bar, under Options, to > select a color theme (or whatever we end up calling it). > > However, I'm ambivalent about how color-theme.el is written. From a > perfunctory inspection of the code, it looks like it sets up some > infrastructure for defining color-themes that I'm not sure is a good > fit for Emacs. In particular, it might be cleaner to define color > themes using Custom Themes, which were implemented in Emacs 22 and > meshes with the Customize facility. I might be wrong, however, so > comments are welcome. > > At this early stage, I haven't looked into the copyright assignment > issue for color-theme.el. Assuming papers aren't a problem, I'm > thinking we could absorb part of the color-theme project, i.e. the > color settings that they've collected, and rewrite the theme-choosing > infrastructure based on Custom Themes. > > Any thoughts? > > > I'm, sad to say, not a developer, but I'd love to see color theme as an official emacs package! Hopefully it can be made to play nice with all other emacs features. Sorry for the noise but I felt I needed to say that. - Eric