Re: r34254 - in trunk/packages/cdebconf: debian src/modules/frontend/newt
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:55:53AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 21 January 2006 09:13, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > Author: barbier
> > Date: Sat Jan 21 08:13:24 2006
> > New Revision: 34254
> >
> > Modified:
> > trunk/packages/cdebconf/debian/changelog
> > trunk/packages/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c
> > Log:
> > Change colors in the newt frontend to have a black background
> > if the bg environment variable is set to "dark". Some people
> > can hardly read on a white background (closes: #330418).
>
> Does that mean that one should boot the installer with:
> install bg=dark
>
> If so, would it not be better for consistency to capitalize the parameter:
> install BG=dark
>
> Or even to use a bit more descriptive parameter like "BACKGROUND" or even
> "FRONTEND_BACKGROUND"?
This issue had been raised on a French speaking mailing list about
accessibility, and as told by Christian, writing command line parameters
with non QWERTY keyboards is quite boring. Anyway this is a general
issue, I will replace bg by FRONTEND_BACKGROUND for now, but it would be
really great to have short aliases.
Denis
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