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Ergus |
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Re: Changes for emacs 28 |
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Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:47:15 +0200 |
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On September 9, 2020 8:35:18 PM GMT+02:00, Tim Van den Langenbergh
<tmt_vdl@gmx.com> wrote:
>Personal preference for a theme should have little if any impact on
>Emacs defaults, as (at least on my OpenSUSE KDE desktop) Emacs
>is a proper citizen and follows my global theme.
>The only thing that doesn't follow and which I like to use a custom
>theme for is the modeline.
>
Yes, I actually didn't mention the mode line before because with the profile
solution that could be also solved... And we can create several alternatives.
>On Sunday, 6 September 2020 17:00:39 CEST Elias Mårtenson wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 22:45, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> > 1) Improve the default theme: Maybe set a default dark theme to
>make
>> > emacs feel more modern. Experienced users usually already have a
>custom
>> > theme, so they won't be affected. There is actually some
>statistics
>> > about downloades themes here:
>> >
>> > This would be an utterly disastrous change. As an experienced
>user, I
>> > do not have a custom theme, and prefer to use the defaults of
>Emacs.
>> >
>>
>> Same for me, and I'm pretty sure we're not alone.
>>
>> Also, while dark background is popular right now, it's not
>necessarily
>> better. Apart from the fact that there is actual science showing that
>dark
>> backgrounds are worse for one's eyes, I believe the current trend is
>merely
>> the pendulum is swinging back.
>>
>> Recall that backgrounds used to be dark back in the terminal era.
>Then
>> monitors became better and white background was finally usable. Now,
>people
>> who only ever have experienced white backgrounds wants to change
>things for
>> the sake of change, so that is now popular, even though it's actually
>> quantifiably worse.
>>
>> This Wired article on the topic contains links to actual research on
>this:
>> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dark-mode-chrome-android-ios-science
>>
>> Regards,
>> Elias
>>
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- Changes for emacs 28, Ergus, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Elias Mårtenson, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Óscar Fuentes, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Ergus, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, chad, 2020/09/06
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/09/07
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Tim Van den Langenbergh, 2020/09/09
- Re: Changes for emacs 28,
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Re: Changes for emacs 28, Andrea Corallo, 2020/09/06
Re: Changes for emacs 28, Andrea Corallo, 2020/09/07
Re: Changes for emacs 28, tomas, 2020/09/07
Re: Changes for emacs 28, Elias Mårtenson, 2020/09/07
Re: Changes for emacs 28, tomas, 2020/09/08
Re: Changes for emacs 28, Bastien, 2020/09/07