Re: Milestone 1 submission...
William M. Perry writes:
Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> Shouldn't you use XEmacs concepts like "face" rather than just simply
> colors? Shouldn't you use keywords rather than symbols here? It would be
> great if we could establish some sort of generic internal structure that
> could be used by both the gtk stuff and the existing widget stuff.
You could possibly use a face, but I personally hate the idea of creating
an entire face just because you want to change the background color on
_one_ item.
But how will a user customize this stuff? Users already know
how to alter face properties. Why should they have to learn
another way to mess with colors? Also you seem to be ignoring
the fact that color instantiators are window system specific.
"red" will probably work on any Window system, but rgb:ff/0/0
probably won't. But there are times when you want to specify an
RGB value. With a face (containing background/foreground color
specifiers) you can do this per device type. If you're just
using strings for color names, I don't see how you're going to
do it.