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From: Karl Haines <karl@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:45:31
Message-Id: 466CC419.8060707@karlhaines.com
In Reply to: Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? by Kevin O'Gorman
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4 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
5 > On 6/10/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote:
6 >> On Sunday 10 June 2007, Karl Haines <karl@××××××××××.com> wrote about
7 >> 'Re:
8 >> FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love
9 >> with colorized output?!?':
10 >> > Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however
11 >> > that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily.
12 >>
13 >> It should also be turned off by default for anything that's not a
14 >> terminal.
15 >> or a terminal whose termcap/terminfo/etc. doesn't support the ANSI color
16 >> feature. One of the most annoying things I've ever seen is ANSI escape
17 >> codes in emails and/or log files. Gentoo is fairly good about that now,
18 >> but I'm still having problem with RoR misbehaving in this way.
19 >>
20 >
21 > I also dislike the colorization, but for a more specific reason. Gentoo
22 > seems
23 > to assume one is using white on black rather than the default black on
24 > white
25 > in terminal windows. This makes yellow lettering entirely unreadable to
26 > me.
27 > If I could just change all occurrences of yellow to orange (otherwise not
28 > much used) I'd probably not mind so much, but the entire scheme seems
29 > to be hard-coded. And I don't like white-on-black even though it's labelled
30 > "Linux console" in Konsole.
31 >
32 > ++ kevin
33 >
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35 I agree with this also, when using a term window in gnome, kde, etc, the
36 default is always black on white. I always go and change that right off
37 the bat. Ah, well. Gentoo is still the best, lets make it better!
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