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 1HxW3D-000612-Lo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:38:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5AMb2Hb006524; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:37:02 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 l5AMWeh7001821 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:32:41 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AB264E4A for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:32:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.68 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.68 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.006, 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 3RQb3Djwtu-U for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:32:38 +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 DEBDD64A97 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HxVxR-0005xY-OT for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:32:26 +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 ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:32:25 +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 ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:32:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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-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: e08df6ec-4229-44dc-b4ed-69c9b2cf272f X-Archives-Hash: dc068f643b16c52f4aa623bf2469255a On 2007-06-10, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 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. Same here. > 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. Yup, and the responses to complaints that it's unreadible are basically "shut up and change your terminal background to black". > And I don't like white-on-black even though it's labelled > "Linux console" in Konsole. I don't care how you label it, white-on-black is nasty. ;) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Actually, what I'd at like is a little toy visi.com spaceship!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list