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 1HZTpT-0004HT-Kp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:24:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l35FMZ3G010568; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:22:35 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 l35FCTB4028711 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:12:59 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B8765358 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:59:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.784 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.784 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.187, PLING_QUERY=0.326, TW_XF=0.077] 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 M2fL05VLD6Xz for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:59:17 +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 A7A0465230 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HZTQM-0001uT-My for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:58:55 +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 16:58:54 +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 16:58:54 +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 14:58:43 +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> 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: 9f7f079f-1bbd-469d-a491-af318ea63ed3 X-Archives-Hash: 376d32ccf8adf74b4fd69243f5f68252 On 2007-04-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-04-05, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> Why not default to a _useful_ condition? >> >> 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?). I did find one terminal emulator on my system that defaults to a black background (/usr/bin/Terminal, which belongs to the xfce-extras package). On a black background, it's not as bad, but some of the colors like blue on black are still hard to read. I guess I'm in the minority, though... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I just had my entire at INTESTINAL TRACT coated visi.com with TEFLON! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list