From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: solarized
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:43:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR06MB45266E0DC046EF5AE7483CF7963F0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kJ7mE-0003Gl-0P@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:13:38 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> > While I think these discussions are very valuable, I just wanted to
> > mention one aspect of the Solarized theme which I think is quite
> > important. It is one of the few themes with a defined underlying
> > philosophy/principal. Many other themes are just something someone has
> > defined, felt it looked good and released it. Solarized has a more
> > formal definition.
>
> I understand that. I'm proposing to do something similar except
> eliminating the goal of light-dark inversion symmetry.
Regardless of the colors choice; what I find useful is the logical
separation of color in two sorts: base colors and accent colors. Accents
are ment to be used for things that has to stand out, like a window
number on modeline, or a reserved word in a programming language. Base
colors are those used as bg/fg and other basic things that many packages
in Emacs don't need to touch. For that reason I think Solarized approach
is good for a framework choice.
If 8+8 is enough or not, I don't know. Maybe Batsov's approach is good
about a variation of accents colors, 8 lighter + 8 darker which can be
calculated by elisp automatically, or maybe some other division is better?
For the color choice, it is personal preference; I am sure different
cultures can manage color choices for themselves; i.e; make the
framework provide mechanism not policy.
For the concrete proposal, maybe it is best to start by providing a
framework of logical placeholders as well worded by Dmitry (I think) as
a first step; once there is a framework let then speak about some color
functions and elisp to automate calculation of choice, inversions etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-18 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 3:48 solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 8:29 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 9:14 ` solarized Yuri Khan
2020-09-15 10:16 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 13:39 ` solarized Theodor Thornhill
2020-09-15 14:05 ` solarized Gerry Agbobada
2020-09-15 14:40 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 16:26 ` Theme generator Arthur Miller
2020-09-15 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 20:44 ` Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 1:49 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Tim Cross
2020-09-17 0:25 ` chad
2020-09-17 14:25 ` Theme generator Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 5:03 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 20:28 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 20:50 ` solarized Praharsh Suryadevara
2020-09-16 5:05 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-16 8:27 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-16 13:38 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 3:57 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-17 7:53 ` solarized Gian Uberto Lauri
2020-09-17 15:56 ` solarized Drew Adams
2020-09-18 4:08 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 4:08 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 16:44 ` solarized Drew Adams
2020-09-17 14:11 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 23:39 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-18 4:13 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 5:49 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-18 6:43 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-09-16 13:06 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 3:53 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 11:26 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-15 12:15 ` solarized Elias Mårtenson
2020-09-15 12:56 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-16 1:30 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-16 10:21 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-16 12:53 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 22:09 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-17 14:29 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-18 13:32 ` solarized Stefan Kangas
2020-09-18 15:53 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-18 16:03 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-19 4:00 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-20 20:18 ` solarized Bozhidar Batsov
2020-09-15 12:05 ` WCAG AAA and Emacs themes Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-15 20:22 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-16 18:07 solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-17 14:55 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 15:27 ` solarized Arthur Miller
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