bug#45068: [PATCH] 28.0.50; Update Modus themes 1.0.2 (backward-incompatible)

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 at 8:08 PM
> From: "Stefan Kangas" <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "Protesilaos Stavrou" 
> <info@protesilaos.com>
> Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, 45068@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
> Subject: bug#45068: [PATCH] 28.0.50; Update Modus themes 1.0.2 
> (backward-incompatible)
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >   . don't consider this a "theme", but a normal Lisp package (since it
> >     basically violates the conventions for writing a theme)
>
> I guess such violations of our old conventions are getting increasingly
> common in (third-party) Emacs theme development.  See for example:
>
>     https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs
>     https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes
>
> FWIW, I think this is a sign of the health and maturity of Emacs theme
> development; code reuse is as useful in themes as in any other Lisp
> code.

I agree with that.  Themes like those of Protesilaos have reached a very
high standard and have recommended modus-themes as a default for emacs.