Re: [PATCH] Support 24-bit terminal colors.

[Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>]

On 08/30/2016 03:07 PM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> On 2016-08-30 17:03, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> On 08/30/2016 01:55 PM, Rami Ylimäki wrote:
>>> From: Rami Ylimäki <rjy@iki.fi>
>>>
>>> Based on previous work by Rüdiger Sonderfeld, Christian Hopps and
>>> Charles Strahan.
>>>
>>> Currently it's not possible to detect whether terminal supports
>>> 24-bit colors.
>>
>> Why did we decide to stop using terminfo as intended? Why did we stop
>> supporting terminal capability inspection via control codes? We
>> solved this problem in the god damn 1980s. Why are we back to
>> specifying terminal characteristics manually?
>
> Hey Daniel,
>
> I don't understand your email. Are you saying that (1) Emacs is already not doing the right thing, and this patch is continuing in this tradition, or that (2) the world is a sad place, because the solution that was found in the 80s wasn't extended to cover 24bit colors, hence the need for this patch, or that (3) this patch is going in the wrong direction, because Emacs is doing things right already and this patch should use the existing facilities instead of whatever it does as submitted, or (4) something else?
>
> I'm not familiar with capability inspection, so apologies if the meaning was clear for people with more background on this.
> Clément.
>

I'm annoyed that there are no common means for detection. I wonder 
whether Emacs can be a forcing function here. If I had it my way,
I'd just tell terminal emulator authors that Emacs will support their
24-bit-color modes as soon as there's a way to detect them and not before.