Re: [PATCH v3] iproute2: color: default to dark background

David Ahern
2024-05-29T16:23:39Z

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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