Re: Custom themes

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

On 12/10/10 21:25, Chong Yidong wrote:

> (We can also include variable themes, if there happens to be a need.)

You mean themes of customisation variables? Or did you mean 
color-adjustment themes that adapted to light/dark backgrounds?

The color-adjustment themes are "look" themes rather than "feel" themes. 
  But "feel" themes are AFAIK equally feasible with the existing 
machinery - I hesitate to mention it* but I had been looking at the 
customisation theme mechanism as a way to encapsulate old vs. new 
selection settings, though was deterred by its previous interface that 
had little to no discoverability.

A "emacs22weirdoldselect" theme (probably need a separate one for w32) 
would probably be possible - though it would be necessary to use a 
customisation variable to control mouse-yank rather than the current 
rebind to mouse-yank-primary for the relevant mouse-2 adjustment to 
allow such a thing - obviously one can't control bindings via 
customisation themes right now because bindings aren't under the 
customisation umbrella yet (if they ever will be).

[If such "feel" themes were to be endorsed, then the ability to place 
themes into categories in the customize-theme interface it might be good]

* I'd be worried about it become a maintenance albatross long term, 
though I suppose things could just be eventually deprecated.