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bug#66538: 29.1; Green is darker with PGTK
From: |
Peter Oliver |
Subject: |
bug#66538: 29.1; Green is darker with PGTK |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:05:20 +0100 (BST) |
In X11 Emacs builds, Emacs uses colours as defined by X11.
With PGTK, gdk_rgba_parse is called, which calls pango_color_parse_with_alpha,
which uses the colour specifications from CSS
(https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#named-colors).
The CSS colours are almost but not quite the same as the X11 colours
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_between_web_and_X11_colors_in_the_CSS_color_scheme
discusses this). Most notably, I find that X11 green is easy to read on a
dark background, whereas CSS green is not.
I notice that X.org’s rgb.txt now contains a number of new colours related to
this, compared to the rgb.txt bundled with Emacs. For example:
0 255 0 green
+ 0 255 0 lime
+ 0 255 0 x11 green
+ 0 255 0 X11Green
+ 0 128 0 web green
+ 0 128 0 WebGreen
Possible ideas:
- Replace references in the Emacs source code to “green” with “lime”, “purple”
with “x11 purple”, etc. (but would this work for users with old X servers?)
- Replace references in the Emacs source code to green with #00ff00, etc.
- Hack function color-values, say, to hard-code green to be #00ff00, etc.
--
Peter Oliver
- bug#66538: 29.1; Green is darker with PGTK,
Peter Oliver <=