Re: Dependent colours

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:48:31 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Colours are colours, but we usually use the face machinery to specify
> >> them, and we (almost always) instantiate them on the screen via the face
> >> machinery.  That doesn't mean that colours per se are face attributes.
> >
> > I'm probably missing something: what other means do we have in Emacs
> > to produce colors on display, except via faces?
> 
> I think I mentioned SVGs already?  But we also have the mouse pointer,
> and tooltip colours, and various bits and bobs in the toolkits that take
> colours as parameters (for menus and scroll bars and etc).

Some of those are faces, and the rest are not implemented by us.