-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/10/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday 10 June 2007, Karl Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about >> 'Re: >> FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love >> with colorized output?!?': >> > Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however >> > that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily. >> >> It should also be turned off by default for anything that's not a >> terminal. >> or a terminal whose termcap/terminfo/etc. doesn't support the ANSI color >> feature. One of the most annoying things I've ever seen is ANSI escape >> codes in emails and/or log files. Gentoo is fairly good about that now, >> but I'm still having problem with RoR misbehaving in this way. >> > > 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. > 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. And I don't like white-on-black even though it's labelled > "Linux console" in Konsole. > > ++ kevin >
I agree with this also, when using a term window in gnome, kde, etc, the default is always black on white. I always go and change that right off the bat. Ah, well. Gentoo is still the best, lets make it better! - -- Karl Haines (615)686-5043 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karlhaines.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGbMQZU1ENKPO6eeYRAjykAJ4wPk9GNe1v1BV+qLuZl6I/AtAVcQCg2+zm LUneF8QmlVqRtYRxYg9CvlY= =k57c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
