From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10155 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Michael Welsh Duggan" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: horrid color choices in 5.4.25 Date: 10 Mar 1997 12:02:13 -0500 Sender: "Michael Welsh Duggan" Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150071 22696 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:41:11 +0000 (UTC) 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 JAA29392 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:13:17 -0800 Original-Received: from gate.usaor.net (root@gate.usaor.net [204.157.146.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:02:38 +0100 Original-Received: from maru.schenley.com (maru.schenley.com [206.62.188.70]) by gate.usaor.net (8.7.3/8.7.5) with SMTP id MAA29600 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:09:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by maru.schenley.com from localhost (router,SLMAILNT V2.2); Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:02:15 EST Original-Received: by maru.schenley.com from maru.schenley.com (127.0.0.1::mail daemon; unverified,SLMAILNT V2.2); Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:02:15 EST Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of 10 Mar 1997 10:04:36 -0500 Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.25/Emacs 19.32 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10155 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10155 Karl Kleinpaste writes: > I haven't been watching the ding list for a few days -- too busy and > out of town -- so please take the following with salt as needed. > > I upgraded 5.4.15 -> 5.4.25 this morning. I use a black-on-white > emacs, and the new color selections are _dreadful_. To add my comments to this, I hated the new color scheme as well, only I use a white-on-black (dark) schema. The headers were all various shades of green. I just spent a half-hour going through the 5.4.21-5.4.22 diff changing all of these values back (via custom, of course). Not trying to disparage your sense of color, Lars -- but /where/ did you come up with these colors? What is /your/ standard foreground/background color? -- Michael Duggan (md5i@schenley.com)