Re: Themable colors

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:51 +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:

> I am not sure I agree. Red is not just red. It is not uncommon for
> applications to just need a few colors to make something stand out,
> and there may be good reasons for wanting say a red or a green. In
> that case, it makes sense to pick the color out of a palette that
> matches the rest of the desktop.

In that case, aren't you better off with symbolic stuff like

important_text/fg/bg
danger_text/fg/bg
highlight_text/fg/bg
whatever_text/fg/bg

... rather than an explicit "red"?

  Federico