Re: scroll-bar dithering?

[Gerd Moellmann]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> I wrote:
> > In particular, if I have beNiceToColormap==false, and turn on
> > scroll-bars, the scroll-bar highlights/shadow turn very bizarre colors
> > (like lime-green).
> 
> I find I can avoid this (still on my 8-bit display) by explicitly
> setting `topShadowPixel' and `bottomShadowPixel' resources.
> 
> So emacs could just do the shadow color allocation for the scroll-bar
> itself (it already does this for the scroll-bar fg/bg colors, so the
> code should be very simple), since it can do a better job of it.  This
> is also good because the same highlight color calculation routines can
> be used as other 3d objects in emacs, so the resulting colors will look
> more consistent.

That seems a good idea, would you like to work on it?

(Don't know, but it could be necessary to catch the case that a user
already specified topShadowPixel and so on.)