John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > If there were already a library in ths stock Python distribution to digest
> > .Xdefaults files I might consider this. Perhaps I'll write one. But I'm
> > not going to bulk up the CML2 code with this marginal feature.
>
> Then support a private mechanism if you must. But leaving colors hard-coded
> in the application is just as bad as leaving strings hard-coded there, and
> for the same reasons: it's a point that needs to be adjustable for
> accessibility. The whole point of CML2 is to make kernel configuration something
> that Aunt Tillie (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) can do, and we are
> all Aunt Tillies from time to time. That includes differing standards of
> readability, quite apart from the differences in monitors that make
> a Mac user's *red* look more like *orange* to me (and CML2 will be
> used, perhaps even more often used, off stock x86 hardware).
>
> Without counting, I estimate that 50% of the problem (I won't say "bug"
> in this context) reports you have had since 1.0.0 have been about colors.
> The more users you get, the more such complaints there will be. Nail
> this one to the wall before people start demanding contradictory changes.
>
> If you don't have a full X resources parser, then do a trivial scan of
> just .Xdefaults and look for a few fixed cases like
>
> CMLConfigure*YColor: 0xrrbbgg
> CMLConfigure*NColor: 0xrrbbgg
>
> etc. etc. Or provide a private .rc file. Or *something*.
Unfortunately, life is not so simple.
X speaks RRBBGG -- or does it? Suppose the user isn't running in
24-bit true-color mode; do I do my own dithering or quantization? The
terminal emulators only know about the 16 EGA colors. So, should I
support separate resource formats for X and menuconfig cases? But
wait! The Linux console does RRBBGG.
Other possibility: support only the 16 EGA colors by name. But if I do that,
some of the X colors are just *wrong* on standard gray background (cyan is
a good example).
There's no way to get this right. So I choose to get it wrong in a simple
way rather than a complex, costly way.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the
pursuit of justice is no virtue."
-- Barry Goldwater (actually written by Karl Hess)
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