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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Cc: Wayne.Brown@altec.com, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:42:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010521224213.I21408@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010521135857.B11361@thyrsus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105212052290.13267-100000@cola.teststation.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105212052290.13267-100000@cola.teststation.com>; from urban@teststation.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:07PM +0200

Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>:
> 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.

Nobody could come up with a way to support configurable colors that didn't seem
like way more trouble than it was worth.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  "...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
[...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.]
        -- (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD),

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-22  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-21 17:36 Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy Wayne.Brown
2001-05-21 17:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-21 20:00   ` Urban Widmark
2001-05-22  2:42     ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-05-22 14:42     ` john slee
2001-05-22 17:28       ` Daniel Phillips
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-21 19:05 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-21  3:01 Ben Bridgwater
2001-05-18 14:53 CML2 design philosophy heads-up Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-18 15:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-05-18 15:26   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-18 15:37     ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-05-18 15:49       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-20 11:19         ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-20 15:18           ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-20 15:34             ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-20 15:44               ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-20 15:56                 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-20 17:14                   ` Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-21  0:45                     ` Jes Sorensen
2001-05-21  9:14                     ` Helge Hafting
2001-05-21 11:32                     ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-22 20:38                       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-21 12:15                     ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-21 12:31                       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21 23:11                       ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-20 17:47                   ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-20 20:47                     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-20 20:59                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-05-20 21:10                       ` Robert M. Love
2001-05-21  3:38                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-05-20 22:51                       ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-21  1:13                         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-21  6:41                         ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-21 10:04                           ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-21 11:05                           ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-21 20:38                         ` John Stoffel
2001-05-22  0:59                           ` Keith Owens
2001-05-22  9:24                             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-23  1:51                               ` Keith Owens
2001-05-21 23:00                         ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-22 13:45                         ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-22 16:21                           ` John Stoffel
2001-05-22 17:17                           ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-21  3:33                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-05-20 20:59                     ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-20 18:31                   ` Jonathan Morton
2001-05-20 20:13                     ` Eric S. Raymond

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