Compatibility with third party themes? about elegant-emacs HOT 6 OPEN

This would require to split the current theme into layout part and color part. If you're only interested in the header-line, you can probably extract it from the source and put the code in your .emacs file.

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Well, I'm kinda hooked to pretty much all of the layout features! Would this be a feature you'd like to have as part of this project?

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I'm not sure how to do that. I suspect modus-operand set the modeline to fit his theme and there's not much we can do. Do you know if there's an option to leave the modeline untouched in modus?

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I'll have to take a look at their code. I have a feeling though that this might require commenting out entire regions of the themes' code and run elegant-emacs after loading the theme. Will check and get back shortly.

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I think you are on to the right path, splitting the theme into several parts should work, then you can apply in a certain order.

• ui (mode line/fringe/etc)
• typography
• content (I guess this is where the color config could happen)

Then you would apply all these themes and the desired color-scheme. I think you would have to experiment a bit though to find out what should live where.

Personally I have a theme that splits typography and color-scheme which works well.

If this is the case you would load in order of priority typography, ui, "external color-scheme", content

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@terlar thanks, this makes sense. I'm just a little daunted about implementing these changes considering my near zero experience with elisp. I think Nicolas has already split some of the theming elements into separate files. Now I guess the UI chunk (i.e. elegant.el) needs to be split into the typography and UI parts and made compatible with other themes as well? I've been working with a macro that @ltmhs made for "colourless" themes and I believe I could borrow bits of that. Will fool around a bit before getting back here.

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