bug#2454: 23.0.90; Colored Compilation Status is hard on the eyes

[Jared Finder <jfinder@crypticstudios.com>]

Sure.

I'm referring to the color used by the compilation status in the mode line (one of :exit[0], :exit[SOMETHING ELSE], or :run).  The orange and green used here hurt. The red is passable, but still not good.

I believe the mode-line and mode-line inactive faces contribute the background color and compilation-error, compilation-warning, and compilation-info contribute the foreground color.  The problem is that they don't contrast well with the mode-line's default bg colors.  Orange on Gray75 hurts my eyes, as does Green3 on Gray75, or Red1 on Gray75. 

I'd suggest using darker foreground colors, so they don't hurt my eyes.

  -- MJF

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Nicolaescu [mailto:dann@ics.uci.edu] 
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 6:32 PM
To: Jared Finder
Cc: 2454@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#2454: 23.0.90; Colored Compilation Status is hard on the eyes

Jared Finder <jfinder@crypticstudios.com> writes:

  > The colors chosen for the compilation status are very hard on the eyes with the
  > default mode-line colors.  Please change the compilation status to use darker
  > colors.

Can you please explain what do you mean?

If you are talking about the color used to display "error" in case there
was a compilation error, that color is loud by design.