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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> On 6/10/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> On Sunday 10 June 2007, Karl Haines <karl@××××××××××.com> wrote about |
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>> 'Re: |
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>> FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love |
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>> with colorized output?!?': |
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>> > Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however |
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>> > that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily. |
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>> It should also be turned off by default for anything that's not a |
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>> terminal. |
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>> or a terminal whose termcap/terminfo/etc. doesn't support the ANSI color |
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>> feature. One of the most annoying things I've ever seen is ANSI escape |
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>> codes in emails and/or log files. Gentoo is fairly good about that now, |
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>> but I'm still having problem with RoR misbehaving in this way. |
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> I also dislike the colorization, but for a more specific reason. Gentoo |
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> seems |
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> to assume one is using white on black rather than the default black on |
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> white |
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> in terminal windows. This makes yellow lettering entirely unreadable to |
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> me. |
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> If I could just change all occurrences of yellow to orange (otherwise not |
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> much used) I'd probably not mind so much, but the entire scheme seems |
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> to be hard-coded. And I don't like white-on-black even though it's labelled |
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> "Linux console" in Konsole. |
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> ++ kevin |
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I agree with this also, when using a term window in gnome, kde, etc, the |
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default is always black on white. I always go and change that right off |
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the bat. Ah, well. Gentoo is still the best, lets make it better! |
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Karl Haines |
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(615)686-5043 |
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karl@××××××××××.com |
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http://karlhaines.com/ |
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