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 1HxWuD-0003N0-On for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:33:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5ANVqLF030935; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:31:52 GMT Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5ANOBmL020951 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:24:12 GMT Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (graham@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5ANOBb4022294 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:24:11 +0100 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v1.0.0 newton.gmurray.org.uk l5ANOBb4022294 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200703; t=1181517851; bh=cq8nJu0yj8dtzLXe0VtlI4UH71TK5ne/KCAceM CiPzQ=; l=724; h=Received:X-Authentication-Warning:From:To:Subject: References:X-Hashcash:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:User-Agent: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=kXTNBQb2TeKOTVKYETSMW7Dv1Vlrt94op/GtE l07fUgiwJdUhAoisFsTbYq98uKC7dcS7ha9SqQ4FBLIbre7HU1oTPhHbGY8+h2oppwq MEMUXyhqmRfuFHeeC6V/N3YEadBdANW70hzSRnTSsgtRsJH1miUjgay0Hk/P7LiYuGA = Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l5ANOBUF022293; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:24:11 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> <84D6E778-4BDA-40F7-8840-DFAB9500D569@fixe-post.de> <466C59AB.5050503@karlhaines.com> <200706101629.16558.bss03@volumehost.net> <9acccfe50706101507h11e88f9due9a0f763d66de63@mail.gmail.com> X-Hashcash: 1:22:070610:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org::DJeNtJK1HewzMxM0:000000000000000000000000000000000Ahmx Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:24:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50706101507h11e88f9due9a0f763d66de63@mail.gmail.com> (Kevin O'Gorman's message of "Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:07:57 -0700") Message-ID: <87ir9v75r8.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 156b73a8-29ff-478e-b961-7861ff85a59c X-Archives-Hash: a568364487e5595d0ba2ed185754c608 "Kevin O'Gorman" writes: > 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. Maybe it should do something similar to emacs and automatically use a different colour scheme depending on whether the terminal is 'dark on light' or 'light on dark'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list