Re: iproute2: color output should assume dark background

[Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>]

Hello,

On 2024-05-22 21:21, Gedalya wrote:
> Debian is now building iproute2 with color output on by default. This
> brings attention to the fact that iproute2 defaults to a color palette
> suitable for light backgrounds.
> 
> The COLORFGBG environment variable, if present and correctly set would
> select a dark background. However COLORFGBG is neither ubiquitous nor
> standard. It wouldn't typically be present in a non-graphical vt, nor
> is it presnet in XFCE and many other desktop environments.
> 
> Dark backgrounds seem to be the more common default, and it seems many
> people stick to that in actual use.
> 
> The dark blue used by the ip command for IPv6 addresses is
> particularly hard to read on a dark background. It's really important
> for the ip command to provide basic usability e.g. when manually
> bringing up networking at the console in an emergency. I find that
> fiddling with extra details just to disable or improve the colors
> would be an unwelcome nuisance in such situations, but the Debian
> maintainer outright refuses to revert this change, without explanation
> or discussion.
> 
> Instead the maintainer suggested I submit a patch upstream, which I
> will do. I've never contributed here before, so your patience and
> guidance would be very highly appreciated.
> 
> Ref: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1071582

FWIW, I'd support the change to dark background as the defult.