From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10153 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: horrid color choices in 5.4.25 Date: 10 Mar 1997 10:04:36 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150069 22685 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:41:09 +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 HAA28909 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 07:34:06 -0800 Original-Received: from pocari-sweat.jprc.com (karl@POCARI-SWEAT.JPRC.COM [207.86.147.217]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:04:41 +0100 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by pocari-sweat.jprc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03105; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:04:36 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10153 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10153 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_. Notably, please consider: Item 5.4.15 5.4.25 from content midnight blue indianred subject content firebrick firebrick (no change) header names dark green maroon header content dark green indianred4 newsgroups content indianred midnight blue Please observe in 5.4.25 that in, e.g., mail with no "Newsgroups:" header, the _entire_ header is in some flavor of red...and even with such a header present, it stays indianred4 unless it's a crosspost to get the midnight blue. Do anyone have any idea how annoying an _all-red header_ is? And how uninformative it is, compared to the interesting variations present in the older version? It all just blurs into a red blob. What strikes me as particularly gratuitous in this change was that "from" went from midnight blue to indianred while "newsgroups" went from indianred to midnight blue. What was the imagined benefit of inverting these two? Below is a diff -u to recover the previous color scheme in the (background light) case. I never use a dark background, so I didn't address that at all. --karl --- gnus-5.4.25/gnus-art.el.~1~ Sat Mar 8 20:26:56 1997 +++ gnus-5.4.25/gnus-art.el Mon Mar 10 09:30:56 1997 @@ -419,13 +419,13 @@ (defface gnus-header-from-face '((((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground "spring green" :bold t :italic t)) (((class color) (background light)) - (:foreground "indianred" :bold t :italic t)) + (:foreground "MidnightBlue" :bold t :italic t)) (t (:bold t :italic t))) "Face used for displaying from headers." :group 'gnus-article-headers :group 'gnus-article-highlight) @@ -445,39 +445,39 @@ (defface gnus-header-newsgroups-face '((((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground "yellow" :bold t :italic t)) (((class color) (background light)) - (:foreground "MidnightBlue" :bold t :italic t)) + (:foreground "indianred" :bold t :italic t)) (t (:bold t :italic t))) "Face used for displaying newsgroups headers." :group 'gnus-article-headers :group 'gnus-article-highlight) (defface gnus-header-name-face '((((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground "SeaGreen")) (((class color) (background light)) - (:foreground "maroon")) + (:foreground "DarkGreen")) (t (:bold t))) "Face used for displaying header names." :group 'gnus-article-headers :group 'gnus-article-highlight) (defface gnus-header-content-face '((((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground "forest green" :italic t)) (((class color) (background light)) - (:foreground "indianred4" :italic t)) + (:foreground "DarkGreen" :italic t)) (t (:italic t))) "Face used for displaying header content." :group 'gnus-article-headers :group 'gnus-article-highlight) (defcustom gnus-header-face-alist