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Re: Taming some chaos
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Dmitry Gutov |
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Re: Taming some chaos |
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Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:36:58 +0300 |
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On 10/14/2015 02:47 PM, John Yates wrote:
Window management
Too many packages explicitly choreograph how windows are managed,
where and when they should be split, where buffers should be displayed
and whether or not any previous window configuration should be restored.
Such logic is articulated in terms of detailed manipulation of a simplistic
"current-window / other-window" model no matter how poorly it maps to
the user's actual configuration. In essence such packages have taken on
managing the presentation layer even when that is not their main focus.
I agree. One could point to display-buffer-alist, a third-party packages
like shackle or popwin, but even then the user has to operate
lower-level primitives of window management.
Some higher abstraction and UI would do us some good. But it's not like
it's trivial to even design that.
It does not have to be that way. In the X world there are any number of
window manages (both tiling and overlapping). The overwhelming majority
of applications run correctly irrespective of the user's choice of Wm.
X has it easier: each application usually gets its own frame. And they
can have modal windows (there's nothing really corresponding to that in
Emacs).
Fonts and colors schemes
...
Surely given Emacs' support for
inheritance within the faces framework we should be able to introduce a
vocabulary of basic concept faces from which packages then would be
encouraged to inherit.
font-lock-*-face? And faces in lisp/faces.el, the list of which can be
extended.
Trying to wrestle that many faces into a coherent color scheme
and trying to achieve any degree of commonality across packages is
excruciating. I have to believe there are members of our community who
are familiar with color palette UX strategies and technologies (e.g. iPhone
or Android Material style guidelines). Hopefully someone will come forward
and propose a model. In my vision an Emacs user would choose a palette
(likely along with a mapping of palette items to visual roles).
That would be nice as well.