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 1HZToY-00059s-TW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:23:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l35FLeRh009374; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:21:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l35FCVHv028769 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:12:31 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF045652A6 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:46:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.834 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.834 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.160, PLING_QUERY=0.326] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hwEjn3qcEhAk for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:46:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB97765291 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HZTDe-0006yZ-9a for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:45:46 +0200 Received: from c-76-17-159-202.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([76.17.159.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:45:46 +0200 Received: from grante by c-76-17-159-202.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:45:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:45:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> <20070404160017.GC10689@crowfix.com> <4613D5E0.4010507@ep.mine.nu> <2235314.a5vYndrTxF@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <20070405153531.0ff4cd0f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-17-159-202.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: 771a6ccc-42f3-4f7d-9313-6a867e595093 X-Archives-Hash: 6ac24590e5565db44d4c7095ba8a0449 On 2007-04-05, Neil Bothwick 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? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... I want to perform at cranial activities with visi.com Tuesday Weld!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list