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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: New Org-mode talk by Carsten Dominik
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:39:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C728505B-B749-446C-AE3D-3A9F09617657@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100307T134431-920@post.gmane.org>


On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Tom wrote:

> Stefan Vollmar <vollmar <at> nf.mpg.de> writes:
>
>>
>> Hallo,
>>
>> we proudly present:
>>
>> "Emacs Org-mode: Organizing a Scientist's Life and Work"
>>
>
> I noticed the org color config in the talk was much
> catchier (e.g. the keywords with bgcolor) than in the default org
> config. It would be a good idea to make org more appealing by
> coming up with a sexier color scheme. The appearance of org on
> the main page of orgmode.org is very spartan and can be a turn
> off for newbies who are used to applications with a more
> elaborate visual design.
>
> I think a better choice of default colors could improve the first
> impression a bit. Maybe people could send to the list screenshots
> of their config and one of the better ones could be used as a new
> default.

The problem I see here is that if a new user downloads Emacs,
it will have white background and only default colors.

I could of course make the screenshot on orgmode.org with my
color scheme[1], but then new users would not like the first
impression they get when they download emacs and install Org.

I am interested in a discussion about how to handle this issue.

- Carsten

[1] The color scheme is based on the scheme by Peter Jones, who
     in particular came up with the idea to make the TODO keywords look
     like buttons.  I use that idea, but with different colors.  The
     exact colors were not my creation, because I am really not talended
     in this area.  But I agree they look great - they were selected
     by the same designer who created the special logo used on all
     our spreadshirt shop items...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-07 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 20:07 New Org-mode talk by Carsten Dominik Stefan Vollmar
2010-03-05 22:04 ` Russell Adams
2010-03-06  3:27 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-03-06 15:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-06 23:43   ` Daniel Martins
     [not found]   ` <211769421003072137s3a1f48fcq9277529a42b06133@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-08  5:37     ` Nathan Neff
2010-03-07 12:50 ` Tom
2010-03-07 13:26   ` Benjamin Andresen
2010-03-07 15:39   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-03-07 17:03     ` Tom
2010-03-09 16:16       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-07 18:51     ` Manuel Amador
2010-03-09 11:43       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-16 17:17         ` Daniel Martins
2010-03-18  6:02           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-29 14:13             ` Daniel Martins
2010-03-07 19:14 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-03-08  8:06   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-08 11:22   ` Ian Barton

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