Re: Color themes

[Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> Many of you are probably aware of a package called color-theme.el,
> currently maintained by Xavier Maillard.  This package provides a
> relatively easy way to choose from a list of pre-selected "color
> themes" for font-lock keywords.  I think this kind of functionality
> would be good.  For new users who dislike the default color palette,
> there's currently no easy way to choose a different palette.
> 
> Ideally, there should be a submenu in the menu-bar, under Options, to
> select a color theme (or whatever we end up calling it).
> 
> However, I'm ambivalent about how color-theme.el is written.  From a
> perfunctory inspection of the code, it looks like it sets up some
> infrastructure for defining color-themes that I'm not sure is a good
> fit for Emacs.  In particular, it might be cleaner to define color
> themes using Custom Themes, which were implemented in Emacs 22 and
> meshes with the Customize facility.  I might be wrong, however, so
> comments are welcome.
> 
> At this early stage, I haven't looked into the copyright assignment
> issue for color-theme.el.  Assuming papers aren't a problem, I'm
> thinking we could absorb part of the color-theme project, i.e. the
> color settings that they've collected, and rewrite the theme-choosing
> infrastructure based on Custom Themes.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> 

I'm, sad to say, not a developer, but I'd love to see color theme as an 
official emacs package! Hopefully it can be made to play nice with all 
other emacs features. Sorry for the noise but I felt I needed to say that.

- Eric