Re: Functional complaint, customize library

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

The themes idea has come up several times.  It does require some
careful conciderations if you want to do it right, but not a huge
project either.  Especially compared to the benefits.  Nobody has
volunteered for doing the work, though.

I find the other idea totally unfascinating.

Discussion about themes (and that other thing) should probably go to
<URL:mailto:emacs-custom@sunsite.auc.dk>, replies redirected there.

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

> In a CMU-local chat system this morning, there's been an argu^H^H^Hdiscussion
> about the customization of fonts and colors in Gnus.  It seems that a
> lot of folks are uptight at the fact that there's a bunch of things to 
> change, instead of some monolithic way to pick a whole color scheme at 
> once, or at least to change everything to a single color.  A primary
> plaintiff in this says that he would really like not to have to go
> through a set of a dozen different color/font selections, but instead
> could say "change all foreground colors to MidnightBlue and don't
> bother me about it any more."  The related "scheme" idea comes from
> the Windows-centric crowd, where there are ways of picking a whole
> selection of quasi-matched colors for one's basic environment.
> 
> I've never so much as glanced at the internals of customize.  Any
> opinions out there on how hard it would be to create such things as
> "scheme"-based color choices (with a few such sample schemes to start
> with) and an aggressive change-all-of-'em-in-this-group-to-this-color
> function?
> 
> --karl