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Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28 |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:43:41 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.4.13; emacs 27.1 |
Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> writes:
>>New users don't have to understand it from the start though, it is
>>something one can come to understand with using Emacs. If you hover
>>with the mouse over each item, it will describe what each thing means,
>>and you can change each thing accordingly.
>>
> New users are used to know if the document has changes at least. And in
> the applications they use: filename* by default.
We have buffers that end on “*”, such as “*scratch*”, “*shell*” (M-x
shell), “*mu4e-view*”, etc. Emacs can display graphics and/or Unicode
characters; it doesn’t need to follow a convention here other than to
provide *some* indication of a changed buffer.
The modeline already separately indicates a changed buffer with “*” (and
another “*” to indicate that the buffer is writable). Modeline themes
such as the excellent smart-mode-line display a coloured Unicode
character instead (a vertically centered cross), which works just as
well.
>> 3) Colors: People prefer higher contrast in general 4 example: in my
>> system when the region es enabled the default gray color is so light
>> that I can't see it. Same applies to icon that when enabled or disabled
>> the difference sometimes is minimal.
>>
>>Can you provide research on that people do actually prefer higher
>>contrast in general? Your example doesn't really follow from the
>>first claim -- since that is your specific preference, not everyone
>>elses preference.
>>
> Lock back in this same thread there was a long discussion about
> that. The supporters of light colors brought some articles about
> astigmatism and so on, while the others bring different ones.
>
> Again look around and compare what you see.
None of the articles AFAIR talked about *high* contrast; many user
interface guidelines and accessibility recommendations do recommend
sufficient contrast (sometimes quantified as a minimum contrast between
two colours), but this doesn’t mean that higher contrast is always
better than lower contrast.
The Solarized colour palette, for example, aims to provide *equal*
contrast, but is agnostic on exactly how high the contrast threshold
should be (in some implementations of the theme the contrast threshold
can trivially be adjusted).
Back to the original claim: I cannot reproduce the problem in “emacs
-Q”; when I activate the region the background and foreground colours of
the text in the region are swapped, providing the same contrast as when
the region is not active.
--
Ricardo
- toggle-light-dark-mode (was: Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28), (continued)
- toggle-light-dark-mode (was: Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28), Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/15
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Caio Henrique, 2020/09/15
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Juri Linkov, 2020/09/15
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Caio Henrique, 2020/09/15
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Juri Linkov, 2020/09/16
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2020/09/16
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Juri Linkov, 2020/09/16
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/16
- Re: toggle-light-dark-mode, Arthur Miller, 2020/09/17
- RE: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Drew Adams, 2020/09/12
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28,
Ricardo Wurmus <=
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Ergus, 2020/09/12
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Caio Henrique, 2020/09/12
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Ergus, 2020/09/12
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2020/09/13
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/09/12
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/13
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/09/13
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/13
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/09/13
- Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/13