From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 22:39:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 22:39:37 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:4872 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 22:39:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:42:13 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Urban Widmark Cc: Wayne.Brown@altec.com, David Woodhouse , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy Message-ID: <20010521224213.I21408@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Urban Widmark , Wayne.Brown@altec.com, David Woodhouse , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010521135857.B11361@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from urban@teststation.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:07PM +0200 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Urban Widmark : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond "...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),