From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14915 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Functional complaint, customize library Date: 07 Apr 1998 10:24:49 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154030 18977 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) Keywords: change,color,font,scheme,single 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 HAA25097 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 07:28:06 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA17530 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:27:49 -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 JAH20250; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:27:49 -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 09:25:44 -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 JAA20219 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:25:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21539 invoked by uid 504); 7 Apr 1998 14:25:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21536 invoked from network); 7 Apr 1998 14:25:20 -0000 Original-Received: from pocari-sweat.jprc.com (207.86.147.217) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 1998 14:25:19 -0000 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by pocari-sweat.jprc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA11993; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:24:50 -0400 Original-To: Per Abrahamsen , ding@gnus.org X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6h R;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14915 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14915 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