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+From: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>\r
+To: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>\r
+Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: use font-face instead of explicit colouring\r
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+Hi\r
+\r
+On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+> That's a shame. Having light/dark alternatives are OK as a workaround but\r
+> it's a shame this can't just all be done with faces. I don't see why there\r
+> needs to be a string to face lookup map, why not just put the string in the\r
+> face name?\r
+\r
+If you did that how would you let a user customize it (I mean as a\r
+defcustom, rather than setq in .emacs)? There is also a possible\r
+question of dealing with tags with weird characters (eg spaces or\r
+worse), so some form of quoting would be needed.\r
+\r
+It's not something I have interest in implementing, but I would be happy\r
+to review patches doing this. Dme might also have some comments -- he\r
+had a complete rewrite of the code dealing with the search format.\r
+\r
+Best wishes\r
+\r
+Mark\r
+\r
+\r
+\r
+\r
+\r
+> On 5 Mar 2016 11:00 a.m., "Mark Walters" <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+>\r
+>>\r
+>> Hi\r
+>>\r
+>> On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+>> > I should say that I am aware of the workaround, e.g.\r
+>> >\r
+>> > (setq\r
+>> > notmuch-search-line-faces '(("unread" :weight bold)\r
+>> > ("flagged" :inherit\r
+>> 'font-lock-string-face)))\r
+>> >\r
+>> > but this must be applied per-user. If you removed this defcustom and had\r
+>> > unread/flagged/other faces, then themes (such as darcula) would be able\r
+>> > to provide sensible defaults out of the box.\r
+>>\r
+>> I am not sure I see how this would work without cluttering up the\r
+>> customize options significantly. The notmuch-search-line-faces allows\r
+>> selecting the face based on any tag (so for example I use different\r
+>> colours for emails tagged "work", and tagged "waiting"). We could have\r
+>> additional notmuch-search-line-unread-face which could then be used in\r
+>> the above -- but now the user has two places to customize the same thing.\r
+>>\r
+>> How do you see this working?\r
+>>\r
+>> (We probably could make the default depend on light or dark theme to make\r
+>> the default more usable.)\r
+>>\r
+>> Best wishes\r
+>>\r
+>> Mark\r
+>>\r
+>> >\r
+>> > Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:\r
+>> >\r
+>> >> [ text/plain ]\r
+>> >> Hi,\r
+>> >>\r
+>> >> I use a dark theme and many of the colour choices of notmuch collide\r
+>> >> with my theme. However, notmuch is explicitly adding information such as\r
+>> >> "blue foreground" instead of using faces that I can customise.\r
+>> >>\r
+>> >> Could you please consider using faces instead of explicit colours?\r
+>> >>\r
+>> >> [ text/plain ]\r
+>> >>\r
+>> >> --\r
+>> >> Best regards,\r
+>> >> Sam\r
+>> >> [ signature.asc: application/pgp-signature ]\r
+>> >\r
+>> > --\r
+>> > Best regards,\r
+>> > Sam\r
+>> > _______________________________________________\r
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+>>\r