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),
next prev parent 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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