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Re: colorls in base
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 01:24:09PM -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> > Can we, however, please have colors that are not angry fruit salad? My
> > understanding is that sufficiently recent xterm and terminfo is
> > capable of handling arbitrary rgb colors, so there's therefore no need
> > to make everyone's eyes fall out.
>
> That's more a palette issue... ANSI gives us 8 colors (16 if you think
> that "bold" should indicate another color rather than heavier weight
> text). It's difficult to get a combination of
> black/red/green/yellow/blue/magenta/white to not look like angry fruit
> salad, unless you significantly diverge from the generally accepted look
> for those color names.
And you can't diverge from them at all using just the traditional
MSDOS-era color escape codes.
That's the point. Using tty colors is, inherently, repulsively ugly. I
am asking that we not perpetuate this aesthetic crime and, if we're
going to deploy this feature, do it in a way that doesn't
automatically make people's eyes fall out.
(And before anyone says "it adds information! whether it's ugly is
irrelevant" -- being that ugly detracts significantly or fatally from
the ability to interpret the information.)
> If you want to advance to the 256 color with
> 6x6x6 color cube, or 24-bit color modes, you may quickly take this
> thread into literal 'what color should we paint it' bike shedding.
Yes, so someone with graphic design sense needs to put together a
scheme, or steal one off the internet.
> > Better still would be a scheme that can adjust to the existing text
> > and background color of the terminal, but that's probably still hard.
>
> While an interesting idea, that sounds like a solution waiting for a
> problem to me.
Why? Does every terminal window out there have the same background
color?
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David A. Holland
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