Re: [PATCH] portage.output: Replace darkblue colors with teal

Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Dec 2021 10:47:53 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel
Organization	Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
Message-ID	<Yas5SZgVes/zaw/[email protected]>

On 04-12-2021 10:24:23 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 10:15 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 04-12-2021 10:13:09 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 09:56 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > > Why don't you change your color.map instead of changing the default for
> > > > everyone?
> > > 
> > > Why should we keep a stupid default?  Should we optimize Gentoo for
> > > people who don't want to be able to read Portage's output?
> > 
> > You're assuming everyone uses the terminal in the way you do.  I simply
> > don't think that's how the world looks like.
> 
> On the other hand, you're assuming that everyone uses the terminal
> in the way you do.

It eludes me how you came to that conclusion.

> > No need for calling things stupid, IMO.
> 
> Using dark blue on black background is stupid.

... then don't use black background or dark blue text?

Now, if you would make a supported claim that all terminals we install
use a black background by default, your change becomes more valid.

However, we then still don't know if people leave that default or use
something else, but we could make some educated guess about the amount
of people not changing the default.

My point, because I think this wasn't clear to you, is and always was,
how many people is this change going to be disruptive to.  And should
we make a hint to users when they install this version of Portage that
they can revert/change this by altering color.map (and how)?

Thanks,
Fabian

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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