From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14916 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Functional complaint, customize library Date: 07 Apr 1998 17:30:04 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: emacs-custom@sunsite.auc.dk NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154030 18980 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-custom@sunsite.auc.dk Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26250 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:33:22 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA18513 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:33:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAH29728; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:33:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 07 Apr 1998 10:30:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29680 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:30:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21888 invoked by uid 504); 7 Apr 1998 15:30:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21885 invoked from network); 7 Apr 1998 15:30:10 -0000 Original-Received: from elc1.dina.kvl.dk (130.225.40.228) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 1998 15:30:10 -0000 Original-Received: from zuse.dina.kvl.dk (zuse.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.245]) by elc1.dina.kvl.dk (8.6.12/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA21995; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:30:06 +0200 Original-Received: (abraham@localhost) by zuse.dina.kvl.dk (8.6.12/8.6.4) id RAA05691; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:30:05 +0200 Original-To: Karl Kleinpaste X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.2/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14916 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14916 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 , replies redirected there. Karl Kleinpaste 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