Re: Adding some convenience functions to color.el

[Yilkal Argaw <yilkalargawworkneh@gmail.com>]

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  > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
  > We already have color-dark-p (and color-name-to-rgb to complement it),
   > so I'm not sure I understand the rationale for these functions.  Can
   > you explain more why you needed them?

Sorry I totally missed color-dark-p. I did not check faces.el and
color-dark-p was in faces.el.
Having color-name-to-hsl is just a convenience function to make it easier
when working in some
color spaces. Because some operations are easier in certain color spaces.


On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:55 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Yilkal Argaw <yilkalargawworkneh@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 02:57:41 +0300
> >
> > Today I was messing around with some theme that  made use of color.el
> and I noticed some functions
> > that might be of use could be added to color.el to help with the
> conditionally assigning setting some
> > colors based on lightness or darkness of some other color. I wondered if
> it might be useful to other
> > users and if it might be worth adding it to color.el. I
>
> We already have color-dark-p (and color-name-to-rgb to complement it),
> so I'm not sure I understand the rationale for these functions.  Can
> you explain more why you needed them?
>

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