Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanity

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:35:53 +0000


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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