Re: themes

[Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>
>> Ah, yes.  This is due to a design decision in the Custom Themes code: it
>> deliberately ensures that the user's own customizations override
>> anything set by a theme, which in term overrides changes set outside
>> Customize.  (All settings should be reversible.)
>>
>> The idea is that you should be able to load a theme, and then change
>> individual settings to you disagree with.  This seems like a reasonable
>> thing to want, though it's true that it could lead to confusion.
>
> That might be a good policy if everybody started out using themes, chose
> a theme they liked, and then made a few tweaks on top of it -- but I
> think that may not reflect reality very well... a fair number of people
> may be like me, and have a large number of tweaked faces already in
> place when they hear about themes.  They'll try out themes, notice they
> all seem a bit off, and might even abandon the concept...

Definitely. I might have custom faces matching a blue background but
those will look totally odd on e.g. a white one.

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