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Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:39:14 -0800 |
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I don't feel we're converging on a consensus solution. If you're not
going to budge on this, I propose simply reverting the code to what it
was in 24.3 and unconditionally using the system selection foreground
and background colors. I'd rather have that than :distant-foreground and
its hard-coded policy.
Also, can you please configure *your* mailer to wrap long lines?
On 01/14/2014 12:01 PM, Jan Djärv wrote:
But that's exactly what
happens when we put gtk_selection_bg_color in a color spec! Why are you
fine with allowing gtk_selection_bg_color as a color (producing a color
that's presumably workable but unknown to a theme writer) but adamantly
opposed to a feature that selects good colors another way?
I'm objecting to having the system default colors replaced with
generated colors for the default case. What themes other than the
default does is irrelevant. We are just talking about defaults here.
We already replace the system default colors with colors from font-lock faces.
We at least try to use text selection colors and tool tip colors
where
we can.
That's simply not true. We're now replacing the system selection
foreground with colors from font-lock faces. This entire thread is about
solving the problems that arise from this decision.
For some ports of Emacs this is harder (i.e. not using Gtk+). I
haven't seen any system defined colors that corresponds exactly to an
Emacs font-lock face, Emacs defines tons of faces that most GUI system
don't. So yes, we replace system colors, when Emacs can't figure out the
system color. What else should Emacs do?
Replacing the system selection foreground color is a choice. If we're
going to make the leap to overriding system color preferences, we
shouldn't feel constrained by needing to respect system preferences.
I've produced working code that allows Emacs to act how you prefer *and*
how I prefer based on user configuration. What is your problem with that
code?
I have no problem with the code, just the defaults.
Have you responded to the numerous objections to
:distant-foreground with anything other than retrenchment?
So far the objections have been mostly opinions. If there was a
concrete case or a bug it exposes that would be another issue.
The most concrete objection is the case of inheriting faces Yidong
brought up in another mail, which indeed is a real problem.
Problems with usability in UI or API design don't result in clear
"bugs" in the same way that logic errors or crashes do. Fixing them
relies on judgment, and that relies chiefly on informed opinion. You
can't dismiss others' opinions about this feature while not subjecting
your own to the same treatment.
I have not put forth any usability or design argument for the
current
implementation,
Your position seems inconsistent. You say that it's okay to override
system colors with explicitly-specified RGB values, but not okay to
override these preferences with generated colors. You argue that the
system selection foreground is presumably chosen to look good against
the system selection background, but ignore the fact that font-lock
faces aren't.
it is a bug fix plain and simple. Informed opinion
sounds like a copout to avoid having to motivate your opinion.
Bullshit. My patch is just as much a bugfix as :distant-foreground. What
makes your bugfix better than mine?
That would be OK if X
and Y where appointed design chiefs for Emacs or this aspect of Emacs. I
don't think any value of X or Y has been so appointed, except for the
Emacs maintainers.
And Stefan hasn't stated a position, except to say that the general idea
of algorithmically-derived face color is acceptable in some circumstances.
And a theme designer can opt not to use the feature or to explicitly
turn it off --- but a theme designer should never have to bother,
because the feature only activates when the contrast is awful, which
happens only when a theme designer screws up or deliberately relies on
system colors.
Why should a theme designer rely on system colors? That does not sound
like a good theme. Again, the default should rely on system colors, not
arbitrary themes.
You are not responding to the point I make in the text you quote.
I
don't know why a theme designer would use system colors either. That's
not the point. I'm saying that explicitly-chosen themes should never
trigger the code under discussion if they're well-designed.
Okay. I don't know why that is relevant though.
It's relevant because you're arguing as if we arbitrarily replace
user-specified colors with algorithmically-derived colors. We only do
that when the colors we would otherwise use are not legible against each
other. Any well-designed theme will never trigger this code because it
will never produce an illegible color combination. If it did, it would
be better for users for Emacs to override the theme and produce text
users can read.
In any case, themes probably won't set :contrast-function, so it won't
matter.
That is not a use case. A use case describes what an actual user does
and in what situation automatically calculates colors enters the
picture.
This entire thread describes the use case. There are abundant examples.
Your objection here is baseless.
There is a lot of handwaving and describing of mechanisms, but not one
real world example, i.e. what major mode and which font lock faces and
possible other faces are involved, and what does the user do to trigger
the generated color.
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
So to put the discussion in more concrete terms: say I run a stock
GTK3 Emacs on a system with a background color exactly equal to
"Blue1", which is the color we use for font-lock-function-name-face.
I visit xfaces.c, search for "UNSPECIFIEDP", and hit C-a C-SPC C-e.
What colors do you propose we use for the text "UNSPECIFIEDP" on that
line?
You can do that today and see which color gets used.
It is the one Emacs trunk uses today, the Gtk selection foreground color.
:distant-foreground has far too narrow a justification to warrant being
a face property by itself.
Also, just an opinion, not based on some documented design rule in any
Emacs or GNU document.
So only GNU documents count now, not reasoned arguments?
No, but if documentation of some design rule existed it would give
weight to your argument. But your statement about :distant-foreground
being too narrow is just your personal opinion which you have not
motivated with any reasoned argument, just asserted.
I'm not the only one who's expressed concerns about the design of the feature.
Good, then you should be able to motivate your design rules with no effort.
This is incredibly frustrating. I've *already* "motivated" my concerns,
as have Drew Adams and Chong Yidong. Briefly, the proposed face
attribute addresses one specific problem and not easily-foreseeable
related problems, hard-codes a particular policy choice for solving that
problem. It requires that we support this particular hard-coded policy
choice for all time, since we can't easily remove face attributes once
we've added them. Automatically adjusting colors for contrast is subtle
and applicable to *any* situation where we need to combine faces for
disparate sources.
Further, a single foreground-color attribute is inadequate for the
general case, since there's no guarantee that the "distant" color
contrasts against the background any better than the normal color does.
In practice, your feature is only good for the region face, since there,
we can specify the system selection background. That's what I mean when
I say it's "too narrow": your solution is a special-case hack that
doesn't fully address the issues surrounding the problem it means to
solve. If we fully solve the problem after shipping distant-foreground,
we'll just have to support *both* solutions forever.
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan D., 2014/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute,
Daniel Colascione <=
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/14
- RE: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/14
- RE: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Drew Adams, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Jan Djärv, 2014/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] About the :distant-foreground face attribute, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/15