Re: emacs 23 - color-theme

[Richard Riley]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Richard Riley<rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The color-theme with emacs 23 in debian unstable at least does not
>> work. Whats the best way to report this? Standard emacs development
>> mailing list?
>>
>> color-theme-6.6.0 from tar worked ok even if the instrucions from make
>> did not. You need to follow the instructions in the README rather than
>> the make output.
>
> Please see the suggestion here for using Emacs themes for this instead:
>
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg00356.html
>
> This is already working, but some things will have to be improved.

Like having some themes?!? Whats so good about this? Surely eaiser to
just make color-themes work as shipped than introducing yet another
"almost the same" package?

And it would be nice if color-theme-x could work too since using x
resources is so much faster than setting themes.

>
> BTW, someone said it would be good to make an elisp program for
> translating color themes to this new format. Is anyone interested in
> doing that?
>
>

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