From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:45:15 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ev321r$jne$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070405153531.0ff4cd0f@hactar.digimed.co.uk
On 2007-04-05, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:24:02 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > But, it does! The colors are very useful!
>>
>> Only on certain terminals. They're quite unreadable on a white
>> background (which has always been the default for xterm and
>> it's descendants, right?).
>
> Those particular colours are less useful, because they are designed for a
> black background,
But the default background on terminals under X has always been
white (at least as long as I remember). Are there really a lot
of Gentoo users who just run on the console and don't use X?
> but it is easy enough to change to a more suitable selection.
My point was why default to something that isn't useful for the
standard terminal emulators like xterm, aterm, rxvt, etc. Are
there common terminal emulators that default to a black
background?
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2007-04-04 4:17 [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? felix
2007-04-04 4:29 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-04 5:13 ` felix
2007-04-04 5:36 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-04 6:19 ` Graham Murray
2007-04-04 6:22 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-05 17:07 ` Mick
2007-04-05 19:07 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-05 19:14 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-05 19:22 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-06 15:44 ` Mick
2007-04-06 18:34 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-07 17:26 ` Dan Farrell
2007-04-07 19:32 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-07 23:07 ` [gentoo-user] sylpheed claws quotes colourisation (was: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?) Renat Golubchyk
2007-04-08 1:39 ` Dan Farrell
2007-04-08 8:36 ` [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Neil Bothwick
2007-04-08 15:40 ` Dan Farrell
2007-04-08 16:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-08 23:25 ` David Relson
2007-04-09 13:44 ` Dan Farrell
2007-04-06 5:48 ` W.Kenworthy
2007-04-06 6:14 ` Graham Murray
2007-04-06 8:19 ` Neil Bothwick
[not found] ` <200704061149.37793.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>
2007-04-06 10:26 ` Paul Colquhoun
2007-04-08 13:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-06 11:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-06 16:03 ` Mick
2007-04-04 7:32 ` felix
2007-04-04 10:15 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-04-04 10:27 ` Alexis Lahouze
2007-04-04 11:51 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-04 13:09 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-04-04 13:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-04 14:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2007-04-04 15:53 ` felix
2007-04-04 16:19 ` [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorizedoutput?!? Nelson, David J
2007-04-04 17:07 ` felix
2007-04-04 18:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2007-04-04 19:00 ` felix
2007-04-04 19:04 ` felix
2007-04-04 19:37 ` Neil Walker
2007-04-04 19:41 ` Neil Walker
2007-04-04 20:04 ` Dan Cowsill
2007-04-04 20:28 ` felix
2007-04-04 21:08 ` Dan Cowsill
2007-04-05 6:47 ` Alexander Skwar
2007-04-05 8:51 ` [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love withcolorizedoutput?!? Nelson, David J
2007-04-04 17:27 ` [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-04 18:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-04 21:31 ` b.n.
2007-04-04 19:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-04 20:34 ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-04-05 1:02 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-05 6:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
[not found] ` <200704042140.21829.harmgeerts@home.nl>
[not found] ` <20070404195909.GA18762@crowfix.com>
2007-04-04 20:35 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorizedoutput?!? Bo Ørsted Andresen
[not found] ` <200704042227.48244.harmgeerts@home.nl>
2007-04-04 20:57 ` felix
2007-04-04 21:23 ` Chris Scullard
2007-04-04 21:38 ` Neil Walker
2007-04-05 6:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-05 7:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Kirkwood
2007-04-05 10:02 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-04-05 21:26 ` b.n.
2007-04-05 6:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-04 11:37 ` [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-04 14:33 ` felix
2007-04-04 15:50 ` Neil Walker
[not found] ` <20070404155552.GB10689@crowfix.com>
2007-04-05 7:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-16 19:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Bryan Whitehead
2007-04-04 4:33 ` Dale
2007-04-04 5:48 ` Roy Wright
2007-04-04 7:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-04 9:56 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-04-04 14:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2007-04-04 16:00 ` felix
2007-04-04 16:44 ` Neil Walker
2007-04-04 17:56 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-04 18:12 ` felix
2007-04-04 19:15 ` Neil Walker
[not found] ` <ev0tob$4nk$1@sea.gmane.org>
2007-04-04 19:29 ` felix
2007-04-05 6:58 ` Alexander Skwar
2007-04-05 14:24 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-05 14:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-05 14:45 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2007-04-05 15:31 ` Ryan Curtin
2007-04-05 15:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-05 17:48 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-05 18:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-05 19:52 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-05 20:33 ` Christer Ekholm
2007-04-05 21:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-05 21:41 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-05 22:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-05 22:29 ` b.n.
2007-04-05 16:14 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-05 17:51 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-05 18:26 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-05 18:36 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-06 16:18 ` Mick
2007-04-06 18:36 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-05 18:33 ` Francesco Talamona
2007-04-05 18:47 ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-05 14:58 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-07 18:08 ` Dan Farrell
2007-04-07 18:30 ` Mike Markowski
2007-04-07 20:52 ` Grant Edwards
2007-04-08 8:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-08 18:49 ` Mike Edenfield
2007-04-09 13:47 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] " Dan Farrell
2007-04-04 17:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2007-04-04 18:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-04 21:36 ` b.n.
2007-04-06 16:28 ` Mick
2007-04-04 16:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Rob Rutherford
2007-04-04 16:30 ` Jan Seeger
2007-04-05 6:38 ` Bertram Scharpf
[not found] ` <20070405144024.GA13528@crowfix.com>
2007-04-05 15:00 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-04-05 16:42 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2007-06-10 13:38 ` FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] " Robert Welz
2007-06-10 20:06 ` Karl Haines
2007-06-10 21:29 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-06-10 22:07 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2007-06-10 22:23 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-06-10 22:32 ` [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: " Grant Edwards
2007-06-10 23:02 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-06-10 23:22 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-06-11 2:02 ` Dan Farrell
2007-06-10 23:24 ` FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] " Graham Murray
2007-06-11 3:40 ` Karl Haines
2007-06-11 10:02 ` Bertram Scharpf
2007-06-11 10:02 ` Bertram Scharpf
2007-06-11 7:53 ` [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: " Alexander Skwar
2007-06-19 11:40 ` Robert Welz
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2007-04-04 13:41 [gentoo-user] " Wayne Oliver
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