On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:50:14 +0100 "Oliver M. Schode" <oliver.sch...@online.de> wrote: > Package: iproute2 > Version: 6.13.0-1 > Followup-For: Bug #1088739 > > If it's wont-fix I guess the bug might as well be closed, or at least > denoted as it certainly isn't something we can't work around. That said > I find the request about as reasonable as it gets, nor are we talking > about mere matters of taste. On black background, which I still think > isn't too uncommon, the default is indeed unreadable. Nothing to argue > about. Then speaking of workarounds, I've been making do with an alias: > ip='ip -c=never'. Obviously far from optimal, maybe I could play around > with (another) environment variable that is only to do with colors, > those too are beginning to pile up. At least why it would have to be > blue, instead of say bright red, which is perfectly legible, I do not > quite understand.
Today's upload of version 6.14.0-1 adds support for the widely used
NO_COLOR environment variable.
I've sent some additional patches (to this bug report, and upstream)
which seem to improve the readability of coloured text in GNOME Terminal
and xterm with a dark background. Those haven't yet been applied
anywhere.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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