Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Monday 31 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I've always used Linux Colours, on crt and on lcd displays. Contrast
> >  works fine for me. What display device do you use?
> >
> >
> > What do you mean about contrast?
> >
> > My gentoo is using a Westinghouse flat screen with mid-range
> > brightness and contrast.
>
> My question could have been clearer, I meant that the relative contrast
> between fore and background colours using Linux Colours is OK so I can
> see grey on black fine, and the difference between a colour and the
> same one bold is also obvious.
>
> I've used some cheaper crts that were just gross, and in the past found
> that the quality of LCDs were highly variable and mostly unrelated to
> price (this seems to have settled now though).
>

One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all
monitors
the background seems to "crowd" the glyphs -- the markings seems more
slender than when the colors are reversed.  With small fonts (I like high
resolution settings for other reasons), this makes the lettering hard to
read.

>
> You seem to know what to do in most cases and how to achieve it, so I
> don't know if my favourite colour schemes will help you much. However,
> have you considered an eye test for colour sensitivity? A large number
> of males are under-sensitive to certain colours and it's apparently
> hard for the person to detect it in themselves.
>

I'm glad it seems so, since I teach computer science at the university
level.  :o)
But I was hoping to get samples and suggestions of how others have dealt
with this.  I've been muttering under my breath about this for a few years
now and I thought it likely that others may have taken action.

As for vision: I have such an exam yearly.  I always see the numerals in
their
samples, and nobody's ever mentioned color insensitivity. Nevertheless, it's
possible it's vision-related since it works this way for me on all monitors,
and
in my work I see a lot of monitors.

++ kevin

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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