From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Color themes
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:32:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbaizla75e5a.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ljlrmdtj.fsf@mail.jurta.org
On 2009-08-11 00:48 +0100, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> I am thinking about if each buffer is an icon, how to make sure they
>> look like, for example, tango by using the 28 colors in its style
>> guide only.
>
> Color themes and palettes are different things but both are useful.
> A color theme redefines every face individually whereas a palette
> reduces them to a list of predefined colors.
>
> Actually, Emacs already has palette support on text-only terminals
> with a small number of colors with the help of the function
> `tty-color-approximate' that finds the closest color among the
> known colors.
Well if you consider that a palette, it is one forced by the limitation
of the terminal. So you can't carefully pick good colours to form a
palette for text editing.
--
Leo's Emacs uptime: 7 days, 1 hour, 1 minute, 39 seconds
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-30 21:12 Darkening font-lock colors Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 21:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-30 21:51 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-30 22:00 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 21:57 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 22:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-30 23:40 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-31 0:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 0:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-31 3:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 15:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-02 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-02 22:36 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-02 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 0:16 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 1:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-10 0:14 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-10 2:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-10 3:28 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-10 23:56 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 2:14 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-03 2:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 4:34 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-03 5:13 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-03 5:22 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 9:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 11:58 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-03 13:49 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 23:46 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 13:59 ` joakim
2009-08-03 20:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-08 20:56 ` Color themes (was: Darkening font-lock colors) Juri Linkov
2009-08-08 21:16 ` Color themes joakim
2009-08-09 3:04 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-09 4:28 ` Leo
2009-08-09 16:18 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-09 17:28 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-09 18:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:51 ` joakim
2009-08-10 9:12 ` Leo
2009-08-10 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-11 1:32 ` Leo [this message]
2009-08-11 3:58 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-11 4:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-11 5:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-11 5:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-11 8:59 ` Leo
2009-08-11 18:21 ` ferkiwi
2009-08-03 20:01 ` Darkening font-lock colors Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 22:40 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 22:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 0:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 0:16 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 21:27 ` Johan Bockgård
2009-08-04 23:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 23:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 0:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-31 2:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 3:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 12:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 14:21 ` Stephen Eilert
2009-08-03 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-03 23:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-04 8:27 ` Romain Francoise
2009-08-04 8:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 22:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-31 0:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 22:22 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-31 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-31 3:54 ` tomas
2009-08-04 22:14 ` Juri Linkov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-29 23:23 Color themes Chong Yidong
2008-02-29 23:49 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-01 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-01 1:57 ` Eric Lilja
2008-03-02 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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