Re: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06.09.2021 17:11, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>  From what
> I have been experimenting with antinews themes (ie. revert all changes
> since Emacs XY),

I think it's a doomed approach (too much of a good thing), since a lot 
of changes go uncontested, so we don't _really_ have to provide a 
profile with all the changes reversed. Just the important ones.

Again, just my 2c.

> it requires a minor mode to be activated anyway, so it
> might also make sense to just provide a minor mode instead of a theme.

Perhaps we could extend the themes mechanism so that when a theme is 
enabled, and when it is disabled, a particular hook is run.

E.g. for a theme called good-old-days-profile, enable-theme would look 
up and call the function good-old-days-profile-before-enable (if it's 
defined), and disable-theme would try to call 
good-old-days-profile-before-disable.

Would that remove the minor mode requirement?