From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanityExpires:
Date: 8 Jan 2003 12:43:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avi2hi$136$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.96.1030108095857.21895A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030108095857.21895A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
By author: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Man, did you look at this on a console? That is uglier than a hedgehog's
> asshole! Good idea, poor implementation. Please retry, the default colors
> are not as bad on an xterm as the new colors on a console. And with small
> memory machines I sure don't build kernels using X!
>
Also, whatever color set is chosen: make sure it works on a
512-character font console, which doesn't have the high-intensity
colors.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 20:34 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
2003-01-08 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-08 15:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-08 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-01-08 15:56 ` Joshua M. Kwan
2003-01-08 16:09 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 16:55 ` john slee
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