From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff gerard <jeff-lk@gerard.st>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanity
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:35:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108113553.GA21198@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301081205.04849.m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:05:04PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> > using yellow and green text with a "white" background in menuconfig works
> > all right on console, but it looks like crap under xterm, rxvt, etc. no
> > matter whose fault that is, the trivial patch below makes things more
> > readable without any major change in appearance. applies to 2.4 and 2.5.
> > now you can stop wondering about support for "lug and play", "mateur
> > radio", and "elephony" in the linux kernel.
> huh? I can see Plug and Play, Amateur Radio and Telephony very well also in a
> XTERM etc. I don't know where you have any problems with those colors.
> Prolly your xterm etc. are faulty ;)
Different monitors, different graphic cards, different eyes.
All these things offer variation in colour, and yellow text
on a light grey background wasn't exactly a wise choice from
a readability point of view.
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 10:47 [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanity jeff gerard
2003-01-08 11:05 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-01-08 11:35 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-01-08 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-08 15:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-08 20:43 ` [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanityExpires: H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-08 15:56 ` [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanity Joshua M. Kwan
2003-01-08 16:09 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 16:55 ` john slee
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