Re: Naming new GUI colors?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:55:54 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: 

d> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> That seems like a pretty bad limitation, especially where English is not
>> spoken.  Emacs should at least allow naming colors (as opposed to faces)
>> IMHO.

d> I think it would be ridiculous for Emacs to go on a color naming spree.

This is a user facility (like defface).  Emacs only has to provide a
get/set/list API.  Emacs will not define new colors (or if it does,
that's a separate discussion).

d> There is already a number of lists of standard color names.
d> There's one for X11, there's one for html, I'm sure there are lots more.

Yes, but none of them have "my favorite red for alerts" which is what a
user would define (in their native language).

Ted