2009/11/25 Tobia Conforto: > Has anybody else noticed that some colors are off, between the classic > renderer and the experimental renderer? > > DigitalColorMeter.app says that it's the classical renderer to be off... > never noticed it before though.
Hi Tobia, I did this more or less on purpose because there were some complaints in the past that the colors looked too washed out with the default renderer. The default renderer uses "calibrated" colors (i.e. they should be adapted to the display medium to look "best possible") whereas the experimental renderer uses device dependent colors (i.e. just use whatever RGB values that are specified). [1] For example, if you have two monitors of different make/model then colors in the default renderer will probably look more uniform across screens. On the other hand, if you measure RGB values with DigitalColorMeter.app the values in the default renderer will not match whatever colors you specify e.g. in ":hi" commands inside your syntax files (like you noticed). I'll leave it up to MacVim users to decide which works best -- at the moment I'm only getting your reaction; I've yet to hear somebody say calibrated colors look better. Maybe somebody with dual displays have something to say in favor of calibrated colors? Björn [1] See, e.g. "Which Color Space Do I Use?": http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/DrawColor/Tasks/UsingColorSpaces.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001807 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
