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Re: colorls in base



On 17.02.2019 20:24, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 04:08:37AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 04:43:24AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>  > I'm for adding colors...
>>
>> I kind of agree with jnemeth; but as long as it isn't on by default I
>> don't care that much.
> 
> Seconded; as long as it's off by default I'm not going to feel this is
> something worth my effort to oppose.  I already find myself touching
> /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable on new GNU/Linux boxes, so I feel
> something along those lines to enable it here would be reasonable.
> 
>> 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.  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.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 	Jonathan Kollasch
> 

I'm going to get in touch of people active for making console trucolor
to help to design LS_COLORS etc. We could skip ansi/legacy phase and
switch directly to 24bits and keep a fallback for terminals with ansi
palette.

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