[gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Mike Frysinger]

i like colors, they make me happy ... i just finished closing Bug #46614 which 
added a few more file extensions to the multimedia category of colors 
(like .qt .mov .m2v .mng etc...) and i thought, why not more ?

so i was wondering what people felt about the following two new categories for 
default DIR_COLORS:
audio (.ogg .wav .mp3 .au .midi etc...) 00;36
doc files (.pdf .ps .doc .txt .log .tex etc...) 00;32

and maybe others have suggestions for a sweeter DIR_COLORS ?
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Andrew Gaffney]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i like colors, they make me happy ... i just finished closing Bug #46614 which 
> added a few more file extensions to the multimedia category of colors 
> (like .qt .mov .m2v .mng etc...) and i thought, why not more ?
> 
> so i was wondering what people felt about the following two new categories for 
> default DIR_COLORS:
> audio (.ogg .wav .mp3 .au .midi etc...) 00;36
> doc files (.pdf .ps .doc .txt .log .tex etc...) 00;32
> 
> and maybe others have suggestions for a sweeter DIR_COLORS ?

Ooh! Can pr0n files be their own color? ;)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Daniel Mills]

Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> Ooh! Can pr0n files be their own color? ;)
>
heh, but archive files would have to get a new color.  That way you 
could setup a red file directory where where all the bad scripts go when 
they've got some extra cpu time.  I know, I know, bad joke...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 14 May 2004 12:23 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Ooh! Can pr0n files be their own color? ;)

if you can convince everyone to name their movies .pr0n then i think we can 
squeeze this entry in:
.pr0n 01;05;31

note that you have to convince me that everyone has done this before i'll add 
the entry
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Stroller]

On May 14, 2004, at 5:35 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Friday 14 May 2004 12:23 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>> Ooh! Can pr0n files be their own color? ;)
>
> if you can convince everyone to name their movies .pr0n then i think 
> we can
> squeeze this entry in:
> .pr0n 01;05;31

Red wouldn't seem to be the most appropriate colour for blue movies.   
;-]

Stroller.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Daniel Armyr]

> and maybe others have suggestions for a sweeter DIR_COLORS ?

Just watch out for the dark blue (34) I got stuck with that before once on a black background and that was not fun in the long run.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[splite-gentoo]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:56:22AM +0100, Daniel Armyr wrote:
> > and maybe others have suggestions for a sweeter DIR_COLORS ?
> 
> Just watch out for the dark blue (34) I got stuck with that before once on
> a black background and that was not fun in the long run.

Are there any published guidelines for developing colorized console apps?
Perhaps something like:

1.  If you change the foreground color, you must change the background
    to a contrasting color so the character is still visible.  (i.e.
    don't assume the default background color is constrasting)

2.  Remember that 10% of men (and some women too) are color-blind when
    chosing your colors.

3.  Consider using bold, underline, and/or reverse video instead.  (folks
    with dumb terminals for consoles will thank you)

4.  Only use color, reverse video, etc. when doing so conveys additional
    information to the user.  (i.e. don't make body text green just
    because you like green)

5.  Stick with plain text if you're not outputting to a tty.

6.  There is NO rule six.


I use black text on white background (you know, the default colors for
xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.) and still have trouble reading
the output from certain Gentoo-specific commands, most notably java-config.
portage -v output looks like fruit salad (light green package names on
a white background?  Why change the color of the package name at all?
I've never seen it be anything but green.)

Yes, I know about NOCOLOR and java-config -n.  I don't want to get rid
of the colors, I'd just like to see them used with a bit more care and
subtlety.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Markus Nigbur]

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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 17:28, splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote:
> Yes, I know about NOCOLOR and java-config -n.  I don't want to get rid
> of the colors, I'd just like to see them used with a bit more care and
> subtlety.

I second that, no matter what background color you use, some color
combinations are just unreadable. Even worse the higher your screen
resolution and the smaller the fonts are.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 14 May 2004 04:56 am, Daniel Armyr wrote:
> > and maybe others have suggestions for a sweeter DIR_COLORS ?
>
> Just watch out for the dark blue (34) I got stuck with that before once on
> a black background and that was not fun in the long run.

i'm talking defaults here ... defaults can always be overriden on a per-user 
basis via ~/.dir_colors
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] more default DIR_COLORS

[Duane Healing]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 21:21, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i like colors, they make me happy ... i just finished closing Bug #46614
> which added a few more file extensions to the multimedia category of colors
> (like .qt .mov .m2v .mng etc...) and i thought, why not more ?
>
> so i was wondering what people felt about the following two new categories
> for default DIR_COLORS:
> audio (.ogg .wav .mp3 .au .midi etc...) 00;36

Jumping in a little late here. You read my mind, that's what I use in my own 
DIR_COLORS, so I think it's a good choice, obviously. :)

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