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Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute
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Jan D. |
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Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:44:18 +0100 |
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Daniel Colascione skrev 2014-01-14 11:44:
On 01/14/2014 01:34 AM, Jan D. wrote:
Given the use case at hand, we know for a fact that the background is
the region background, so I don't understand why a calculated
foreground
is needed. Just pick one that matches the background.
There might be other use cases where a calculated foreground makes
sense, but my imagination fails me here.
Calculated foreground colors look better: they resemble the font-lock
colors on which they're based.
For the region case, that would imply the possibility of different
foregrounds for marked text, none which is the actual font-lock color.
It *is* the same color in the sense that the code we generate has the
same hue. How on earth is that worse than changing arbitrary font-locked
pieces of text to the system selection foreground color?
Because the system color foreground is (presumably) choosen to look good
together with the system color background.
You seem to object to any feature that renders a face in a color other
than what's literally written in the face spec.
It may seem that way to you, but it is false.
But that's exactly what
happens when we put gtk_selection_bg_color in a color spec! Why are you
fine with allowing gtk_selection_bg_color as a color (producing a color
that's presumably workable but unknown to a theme writer) but adamantly
opposed to a feature that selects good colors another way?
I'm objecting to having the system default colors replaced with
generated colors for the default case. What themes other than the
default does is irrelevant. We are just talking about defaults here.
I've produced working code that allows Emacs to act how you prefer *and*
how I prefer based on user configuration. What is your problem with that
code?
I have no problem with the code, just the defaults.
Have you responded to the numerous objections to
:distant-foreground with anything other than retrenchment?
So far the objections have been mostly opinions. If there was a
concrete case or a bug it exposes that would be another issue.
The most concrete objection is the case of inheriting faces Yidong
brought up in another mail, which indeed is a real problem.
Also, "look better" is just subjective, a theme
designer should deside what looks best, not Emacs code.
And a theme designer can opt not to use the feature or to explicitly
turn it off --- but a theme designer should never have to bother,
because the feature only activates when the contrast is awful, which
happens only when a theme designer screws up or deliberately relies on
system colors.
Why should a theme designer rely on system colors? That does not sound
like a good theme. Again, the default should rely on system colors, not
arbitrary themes.
Theme designers can specify what exactly gets rendered in both systems.
Why do you care so much about letting theme designers loosen bounds
using a special-purpose face attribute (which you don't even bother to
mirror for changing backgrounds) instead of a general-purpose mechanism?
One could think of changing the background instead of the foreground,
but the bug report was about the foreground, so the implementation
matches. There was no need to implement a general mechanism for this
specific bug report.
That is not a use case. A use case describes what an actual user does
and in what situation automatically calculates colors enters the picture.
This entire thread describes the use case. There are abundant examples.
Your objection here is baseless.
There is a lot of handwaving and describing of mechanisms, but not one
real world example, i.e. what major mode and which font lock faces and
possible other faces are involved, and what does the user do to trigger
the generated color.
:distant-foreground has far too narrow a justification to warrant being
a face property by itself.
Also, just an opinion, not based on some documented design rule in any
Emacs or GNU document.
So only GNU documents count now, not reasoned arguments?
No, but if documentation of some design rule existed it would give
weight to your argument. But your statement about :distant-foreground
being too narrow is just your personal opinion which you have not
motivated with any reasoned argument, just asserted.
Jan D.
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Chong Yidong, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan D., 2014/01/14
- RE: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan D., 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan D., 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute,
Jan D. <=
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, John Yates, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14