GNU bug report logs - #41544
26.3; Possible incorrect results from color-distance

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Simon Pugnet <simon <at> polaris64.net>

Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 16:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.3

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 41544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41544: 26.3; Possible incorrect results from color-distance
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:34:23 +0200

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> writes:

> Technically yes, but is there is a reason for users to adjust this
> particular behaviour? Users dissatisfied with the outcome of the
> existing algorithms typically curse and set colours explicitly (or
> suffer in silence); they are unlikely to set a 'use different
> algorithm' variable.

Well, adding this variable would allow us to experiment with defaulting
it to `new-style' during Emacs 28 and see whether there's any immediate
fallout, and allow switching between the two to see what the effect is
(on various systems).

As Eli points out, these things can be finicky.

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