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felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> When devs think it good to colorize everybody's |
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> terminal without regard to long established UNIX custom of using just |
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> simple plain text, I am told that gentoo is not UNIX. Good grief, |
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> what an attitude! |
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The Gentoo devs did not invent colourised text. It has been around since |
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the 1970's at least with ANSI terminals. The IBM PC, released in the |
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early 1980's, came with a choice of two display hardware devices, one of |
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which was a 16 colour text display known as CGA. Linux was not even |
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dreamt of - let alone Gentoo - in those days. The advantages of colour |
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to highlight important text were quickly realised and demand brought |
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down the price of the hardware which, in turn, reduced prices still |
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further. Of course, you could still have plain white text (or green, or |
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amber) if you wanted it by buying a monochrome monitor or terminal. The |
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UNIX default was, effectively, white text on an undefined background but |
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rarely seen in most working environments from the late 1970's on. |
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> When the gentoo dev community stops spouting nonsense about gentoo is |
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> not unix, stops pointing fingers at third party software which was |
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> written to work with gentoo software, and stops blaming users for |
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> preferring white backgrounds, then they will have earned some respect. |
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So, you would like to have the Unix default of white text on your white |
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background? Xterms, X-based consoles - call them what you will, do not |
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conform to that original UNIX "standard" so it is being hypocritical to |
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demand that the text output should accomodate them whilst still |
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conforming to your imaginary standard. One of the (few) advantages of |
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working in X-windows is that just about everything is configurable - so |
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get configuring instead of whining and complaining. |
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FWIW, I don't know any serious UNIX/Linux people, of any age, who don't |
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prefer the text-based console for command-line work. Most of my own |
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machines at home don't even have X-windows installed - let alone the |
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servers I administer. |
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Be lucky, |
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Neil |
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