From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10220 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Bihlmeyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: horrid color choices in 5.4.25 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:26:24 +0100 Organization: Ono-Sendai Message-ID: <9703141326.AA53026@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150127 23169 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA10021 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 05:35:12 -0800 Original-Received: from stud2.tuwien.ac.at (stud2.tuwien.ac.at [193.170.75.12]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:26:27 +0100 Original-Received: by stud2.tuwien.ac.at (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA53026; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:26:24 +0100 Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 12 Mar 1997 17:04:18 +0100 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10220 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10220 Hi, >>>>> On 12 Mar 1997 17:04:18 +0100 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: Lars> That looked very pretty, but it was somewhat hard to read. I Lars> think the furious fruit salad approach to citation coloration Lars> may be appropriate -- one (more often than not) needs to read Lars> all the text, and it's important to "feel" who wrote what. So Lars> doing a Shades Of Purity thing (by default) with the citation Lars> colors might be the wrong thing to do. Perhaps having SOP with different blues is not appropriate. But I think Fading Into Oblivion would be a good choice for citations: Fruit- salady hues which get more pale as citation levels rise. This mimics normall communications, where statements from the distant past are only vaguely(sp?) remembered. Who said what could be distinguished easily for recent citations, while the past blurs. Robbe -- Robert Bihlmeyer reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!