Re: Naming new GUI colors?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:10:03 +1000 Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote: 

TX> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> is there a way to name new GUI colors in Emacs, and get them listed in
>> `list-color-display'? Something like this:
>> 
>> (set-named-color "army green" "#4B5320")
>> 
>> ELisp reference only talks about tty.
>> 

TX> I don't believe so. The colour names are derived from the rgb.txt file
TX> (normally in the /etc/X11 directory on most Linux systems. You could
TX> possibly add your own colour names to this file, but it is prtty
TX> extensive already. 

That seems like a pretty bad limitation, especially where English is not
spoken.  Emacs should at least allow naming colors (as opposed to faces)
IMHO.

Ted