Version 0.6.0
This release contains lots of refinements and additions.
Let me start with an administrative point: I have completed the process
of assigning my copy rights to the Free Software Foundation. This
covers every contribution I make to GNU Emacs. In practice, it means
that the Modus themes can now be included in the official ELPA archive
and theoretically be shipped with Emacs itself. The ELPA inclusion is
ongoing. Once it is completed, I will update the docs accordingly.
The administrative change has no effect on the way this project is
handled. I still am the developer/maintainer and will continue to
improve things further. If you still have questions, feel free to
contact me: https://protesilaos.com/contact
Moving on to the changes since version 0.5.0 (2020-01-26).
Added support for:
+ alert
+ apropos (built-in)
+ dap-mode
+ deft
+ dim-autoload
+ dired-git
+ enhanced-ruby-mode
+ gbd-mi.el (built-in library)
+ helm-ls-git
+ helm-xref
+ imenu-list
+ jira (org-jira)
+ js2-mode
+ jupyter
+ org-pomodoro
+ origami
+ rmail (built-in)
+ vc-print-log (built-in)
+ window-divider-mode (built-in)
+ xref (built-in)
Refinements to existing faces:
+ A new subset of "nuanced" accent colours has been introduced. These
are named {red,green,yellow,blue,magenta,cyan}-nuanced. Their purpose
is to be used in contexts where lots of structured information is
presented to the user, but each component does not need to draw too much
attention to itself (e.g. Org's metadata). As always, their contrast
ratio is designed to always be >= 7:1 relative to the backgrounds they
may be combined with.
+ Greatly improve the support for Gnus, even though most changes are
subtle and are made in the interest of consistency. The group levels
now make use of the "nuanced" palette where appropriate (to denote
levels of lower importance).
+ Several refinements for Org, including the use of "nuanced" colours
for various metadata tags. The agenda headers will now be scaled
appropriately and use a variable-pitch font if the user sets the
relevant customisation values of the theme they are using (check the
documentation in each theme file or the repo's README).
+ Lots of refinements for Helm. Some of these were introduced to align
the overall aesthetic with equivalent metaphors in Ivy. Others are
meant to improve the styles of the headers and make various constructs
consistent with their variants in the Helm ecosystem but also with their
non-Helm counterparts (such as xref file names with and without Helm,
but also with Helm's grep).
+ Improve the colours of buttons in contexts such as M-x customize.
This is especially noticeable in modus-vivendi-theme (the dark theme)
where the buttons are a darker shade of grey rather than the original
lighter one.
+ Keycast now uses styles that are more consistent with the overall
aesthetic of the Modus themes. This means that the mode line indicators
are blue-ish (blue is generally used for highlights in the mode line,
but also when hovering over an item with the mouse pointer). The pseudo
button effect (colours + 3d) has been removed in favour of a flat look,
in line with the flatness of the mode line itself. Whereas before the
keycast faces where designed to be consistent with the package's
defaults.
There were also a few minor refinements for:
+ calendar and diary
+ icomplete
+ mm-uu-extract
+ nobreak-hyphen and nobreak-space
+ org-habit
+ tooltip-mode
Finally, the Commentary section of each theme has been greatly expanded.
It now includes the user-facing customisation options and the complete
list of supported packages.