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On Saturday, 4 December 2021 10:47:53 PM NZDT Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 04-12-2021 10:24:23 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 10:15 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > > On 04-12-2021 10:13:09 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > > On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 09:56 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > > > > Why don't you change your color.map instead of changing the default |
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> > > > > for |
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> > > > > everyone? |
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> > > > Why should we keep a stupid default? Should we optimize Gentoo for |
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> > > > people who don't want to be able to read Portage's output? |
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> > > You're assuming everyone uses the terminal in the way you do. I simply |
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> > > don't think that's how the world looks like. |
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> > On the other hand, you're assuming that everyone uses the terminal |
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> > in the way you do. |
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> It eludes me how you came to that conclusion. |
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> > > No need for calling things stupid, IMO. |
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> > Using dark blue on black background is stupid. |
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> ... then don't use black background or dark blue text? |
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> Now, if you would make a supported claim that all terminals we install |
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> use a black background by default, your change becomes more valid. |
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Well IMO, teal is still easy to read against a black & white background, where |
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darkblue is almost impossible on black. This just seems like a sensible |
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default |
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> However, we then still don't know if people leave that default or use |
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> something else, but we could make some educated guess about the amount |
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> of people not changing the default. |
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> My point, because I think this wasn't clear to you, is and always was, |
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> how many people is this change going to be disruptive to. And should |
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> we make a hint to users when they install this version of Portage that |
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> they can revert/change this by altering color.map (and how)? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Fabian |