Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Karl Haines <karl@karlhaines.com>]

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

I agree with this also, when using a term window in gnome, kde, etc, the
default is always black on white. I always go and change that right off
the bat. Ah, well. Gentoo is still the best, lets make it better!

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Karl Haines
(615)686-5043
karl@karlhaines.com
http://karlhaines.com/

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