Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanityExpires:

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
8 Jan 2003 12:43:30 -0800

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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