Re: Color themes

[Leo]

On 2009-08-09 04:04 +0100, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Do you know how this color-theme package is related to already existing
>> custom-theme package `cus-theme.el' in Emacs?
>
> It's not at all related.
>
> I do think it's much easier to use our existing custom theme code to
> implement color themes, instead of the (from my last inspection, rather
> complicated) machinery in color-theme.el.  Especially if we only want to
> provide a small simple selection of color themes, instead of the
> multitude provided by color-theme.el.

I also don't like color-theme, in particular, how the themes are created
by re-defining all faces. A comprehensive theme could easily run up to a
few thousand lines and it still does not offer 100% coverage, let alone
consistency.

Perhaps a color theme should be defined to be something like a palette
and when a palette is selected defface is forced to only use colors in
it. For example the tango project uses 27 colors.
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines.

On a side note, Textmate seems to offer the best color themes. See the
following url for many beautiful themes submitted by its users.

http://wiki.macromates.com/Themes/UserSubmittedThemes

Leo

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