From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:30:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:30:16 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:28943 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:30:05 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: john slee , Urban Widmark Subject: Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:28:20 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Wayne.Brown@altec.com, David Woodhouse , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010521135857.B11361@thyrsus.com> <20010523004257.C5779@higherplane.net> In-Reply-To: <20010523004257.C5779@higherplane.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0105221928200D.06233@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 22 May 2001 16:42, john slee wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:07PM +0200, Urban Widmark wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > the NEW tag). That phase ended almost a month ago. Nobody who > > > has actually tried the CML2 tools more recently has reported that > > > the UI changes present any difficulty. > > > > What happened with the discussion on configurable colors in make > > menuconfig? Darkblue on black as frozen options get isn't exactly > > optimal ... at least not for my eyes. Being next to a bold, white > > text doesn't help either. > > if you don't like dark blue on black, change your terminal colours. > then you won't find it hard to read in other applications either. On the first day of my graduate course 'Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics' the professor walked in and wrote on the blackboard "Never Use Blue on Black". Yes, we had blackboards then. No, our eyes have not evolved since then. ;-) -- Daniel