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From: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
To: Gedalya Nie <gedalya@gedalya.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] iproute2: color: default to dark background
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 10:23:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8dc2692-6a17-431c-95de-ed32c0b82d59@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1s9tE4-00000006L4I-46tH@ws2.gedalya.net>

On 5/22/24 12:43 PM, Gedalya Nie wrote:
> Since the COLORFGBG environment variable isn't always there, and
> anyway it seems that terminals and consoles more commonly default
> to dark backgrounds, make that assumption here.

Huge assumption. For example, I have one setup that defaults to dark
mode and another that defaults to light mode.

> 
> Currently the iproute2 tools produce output that is hard to read
> when color is enabled and the background is dark.

I agree with that statement, but the tools need to figure out the dark
vs light and adjust. We can't play games and guess what the right
default is.



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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-22 18:43 [PATCH v3] iproute2: color: default to dark background Gedalya Nie
2024-05-29 16:23 ` David Ahern [this message]
2024-05-29 16:36   ` Gedalya
2024-05-29 17:51     ` Edward Cree
2024-05-29 18:11       ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-05-30 22:58     ` Dragan Simic
2024-05-29 18:12   ` Stephen Hemminger

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