Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Hello.

13 jan 2014 kl. 19:41 skrev Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>:

> On 01/13/2014 08:33 AM, Jan Djärv wrote:
>> 13 jan 2014 kl. 14:13 skrev Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>:
>>> The patch uses the CIE L*A*B colorspace algorithm by default.
>> 
>> Do not change the defaults please. Reinstate the
>> *_selection_fg_color.
>> They are system defined and should be honored.
> 
> There are two sane defaults: the 24.3 behavior, where we always use the system selection foreground and background, and my proposed behavior, where we use the fontified foreground and automatically adjust it so that it's legible. The current behavior is worse because it uses the system selection foreground only sometimes and doesn't preserve theme hues when possible.

What theme hues?  The default theme is not really a theme as selection colors are taken from system settings.  And this is correct IMHO, any application that doesn't do so by default (i.e. no user configuration has been set in the application) is seriously broken.

If you talk about other themes, they can set :distant-foreground to a real color of their choosing and not rely on some automatically generated one which most probably don't fit the theme anyway.  Automatically generated colors are a crutch which should be avoided if possible, certainly not recommended.

Of course the 24.3 has been changed, that default is no longer valid due to bug #15668 and it is pointless to use that as an argument unless you mean that the bug fix should be reverted.

	Jan D.