New features schould be on by default, why else would we import them?
> Am 17.02.2019 um 20:57 schrieb David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org>: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 01:24:09PM -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: >>> Can we, however, please have colors that are not angry fruit salad? My >>> understanding is that sufficiently recent xterm and terminfo is >>> capable of handling arbitrary rgb colors, so there's therefore no need >>> to make everyone's eyes fall out. >> >> That's more a palette issue... ANSI gives us 8 colors (16 if you think >> that "bold" should indicate another color rather than heavier weight >> text). It's difficult to get a combination of >> black/red/green/yellow/blue/magenta/white to not look like angry fruit >> salad, unless you significantly diverge from the generally accepted look >> for those color names. > > And you can't diverge from them at all using just the traditional > MSDOS-era color escape codes. > > That's the point. Using tty colors is, inherently, repulsively ugly. I > am asking that we not perpetuate this aesthetic crime and, if we're > going to deploy this feature, do it in a way that doesn't > automatically make people's eyes fall out. > > (And before anyone says "it adds information! whether it's ugly is > irrelevant" -- being that ugly detracts significantly or fatally from > the ability to interpret the information.) > >> If you want to advance to the 256 color with >> 6x6x6 color cube, or 24-bit color modes, you may quickly take this >> thread into literal 'what color should we paint it' bike shedding. > > Yes, so someone with graphic design sense needs to put together a > scheme, or steal one off the internet. > >>> Better still would be a scheme that can adjust to the existing text >>> and background color of the terminal, but that's probably still hard. >> >> While an interesting idea, that sounds like a solution waiting for a >> problem to me. > > Why? Does every terminal window out there have the same background > color? > > -- > David A. Holland > dholl...@netbsd.org
