From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: facemenu-unlisted-faces Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:44:28 +0200 Message-ID: <85zmfrp1yb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151912738 14249 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2006 07:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 09:45:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxJ7S-0002Ik-GR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxJ7S-0005TT-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxJ7E-0005Rb-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxJ7E-0005QK-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxJ7D-0005QD-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FxJKc-0006y2-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FxJ7D-0007jF-43; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 99A2B1C4D3B9; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:44:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:50:39 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:56402 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > If you want to have simple faces in the Faces menu, then limit the > choices to Bold, Italic, and Underline, as well as perhaps a few > simple color swatches for quickly changing foreground color (forget > about dired-this and *-that). That's what most WYSIWYG menus > provide. The number of such "faces" is usually less than 20, and the > menu item for a color is a swatch, not its name ("Red") - the "menu" > appears more as a rudimentary palette than a list of names. A > simple, quick menu for bold, italic, underline, and a few simple > foreground colors would be useful. One problem with mere swatches is that a non-trivial part of the male population (typical programmer's sex) is color-blind in some respect. If those swatches are used for more than coloring the person's personal screen (namely if colors may persist), then picking colors judiciously necessitates seeing their names for such people. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum