Re: [9front] mothra: proposal

["Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020, at 1:27 AM, sl@stanleylieber.com wrote:
>
> >>>	3.) implement -b flag for dark mode, white-on-black text.[2]
> >>>		a.) similar to rio -b, and vt -b.
> >
> > I don't like theming, but I like the propagation of dark mode
> > flags even less. If we want this, libdraw needs to signal to
> > programs which colors they should use, without a '-b' flag.
> 
> i'm not capable of implementing this.  also, by this logic we'd
> need to change existing behavior of rio ad vt.  would we delete
> the existing flags?  i'm not married to -b, but i'm also not
> advocating full-blown theming.  (fwiw, i also don't quite
> understand the vehement objection to it; standardizing it
> in one library seems like the right approach.)

i'm much more opposed to flags than theming, personally. I've set a lot of x programs to dark colors, and some of them can't be done with files or x resources. i don't like to start a whole bunch of programs and leave them running, (or rather, i didn't at the time,) so i had these wrapper scripts which started programs with the options i wanted. (not just color, other things too.) writing those scripts was irritating, especially when i had to make a new one. 


> to think, many years ago i thought mothra would be a good entry
> point to c.  my changes to it are still the most c i've ever
> written in one place.

it could have been worse, you could have started with sam-samterm communications. i couldn't even begin to make heads or tails of that.