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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:04:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3ud3o6n.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ic39vab0it.fsf@verizon.net

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:55:54 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: 

d> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> That seems like a pretty bad limitation, especially where English is not
>> spoken.  Emacs should at least allow naming colors (as opposed to faces)
>> IMHO.

d> I think it would be ridiculous for Emacs to go on a color naming spree.

This is a user facility (like defface).  Emacs only has to provide a
get/set/list API.  Emacs will not define new colors (or if it does,
that's a separate discussion).

d> There is already a number of lists of standard color names.
d> There's one for X11, there's one for html, I'm sure there are lots more.

Yes, but none of them have "my favorite red for alerts" which is what a
user would define (in their native language).

Ted


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20  8:59 Naming new GUI colors? Elena
2010-07-20 22:10 ` Tim X
2010-07-21 11:26   ` Elena
2010-07-22 18:12   ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-23 15:46   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 16:55     ` despen
2010-07-23 21:04       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-07-23 23:28         ` despen
2010-07-24  8:12           ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-24  0:01         ` Tim X
2010-07-26 13:33           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-26 13:50             ` despen
2010-07-26 19:08               ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-27 14:58                 ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-27 23:28                   ` despen
2010-07-28 13:12                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 23:50     ` Tim X

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