Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 23:11, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > >     Eli> Is that because we don't know how to query GTK for the themes 
> > > default
> > >     Eli> colors?
> > >
> > > If by 'we' you mean Emacs, then yes. (I donʼt know how either, and I
> > > find the GTK docs unhelpful).
> >
> > Some time ago someone over at Bugzilla (Firefox’s bug tracker) said
> > it’s generally not possible to query about that.
>
> Why, doesn't GTK have the default color for text and another for the
> window background?

It does, but it encapsulates them. You don’t say “tell me the colors
so I could draw things”, you say “draw things for me”.