From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HZBNO-000296-4s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:42:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l34Jebl3009675; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:40:37 GMT Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l34JTM7A024921 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:29:27 GMT Received: (qmail 15217 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Apr 2007 19:29:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:29:19 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Message-ID: <20070404192919.GA15016@crowfix.com> References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> <20070404160017.GC10689@crowfix.com> <4613D5E0.4010507@ep.mine.nu> <4613F958.6070008@ep.mine.nu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-Archives-Salt: 7492a8ad-876b-4e43-8204-269719acb92f X-Archives-Hash: e27ba64aead0f08d9ca9917787e94ce1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:19:39PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-04-04, Neil Walker wrote: > > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> My point is that why should you have to edit something before > >> you can get legible output from something as basic as "ls". > >> Why not default to a _useful_ condition? > >> > > > > It's VERY legible on all of the systems I administer - but, then, I use > > the text-based console, not some horrible imitation in X. The colours > > make text far more legible in such an environment, accentuating the > > important bits very well. I see that as a "useful condition". Anyone who > > uses an X-based "console" should expect to have to tweak things to suit > > their own requirements. > > I don't use an X-based console. I do however use a lot of > X-based terminal windows. Color output would be perfectly legible, or at least readable, if I doubled my X-terminal font size. But I want more lines and more characters on each line, not colors. I want the choice. Maybe I should accept crappy color for emerges and select a bigger font size for a special emerge-only xterm. But that's a Microserf solution. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list