State of codehighlighting.cpp

[Milian Wolff]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 15.04.09 20:22:12, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 April 2009, David Nolden wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch 15 April 2009 19:02:28 schrieb Milian Wolff:
> > > > 3. Couldn't the whole process be simplified somehow? For example by
> > > > setting a few defaults for white background / black foreground. Then
> > > > for custom kate color schemes we adapt our defaults according to a
> > > > algorithm of our choice.
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently writing a little test-app for different color
> > > > agorithms, if you know any good ones, please let me know!
> > > >
> > > > I'll also implement the current algorithm to see how it fares.
> > >
> > > What do you mean by "color algorithms"? All the code in there does is
> > > generating a predefined set of colors, that differ as much as possible
> > > from each other, using the color wheel(try the HSV color model in gimp
> > > to see it illustrated). There's not more you can do.
> >
> > Why not create a set of predefined colors? That is: pick some colors by
> > hand and "hardcode" them. I don't see why we need to do that
> > automatically, esp. when the amount is fixed. Or should that one day be
> > variable?
>
> Because then we'd need to have a way for the use to configure these colors
> and a way to store them as schemes. However, if we can make the colors
> "simply work" with whatever scheme for kate/kde the user has chosen thats a
> much preferable solution as it requires absolutely 0 work from the user.

You misunderstood me: I don't see a necessity to make the colors configurable. 

I just don't see why we generate the _base_ colors (see color wheel / HSV). 
Those could be _hardcoded_! And then we adapt those colors to the chosen color 
scheme (automatically).
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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