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Bug#680505: desktop-base: Text has too low contrast with new Grub background



On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:41:17AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 10.07.2012 11:21, schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> >I'd vote for magenta as color for the highlighted text. I think it
> >also was like this when text-on-background was first introduced in
> >GRUB and magenta comes most close to the color of the Debian swirl.
> 
> IMHO, this looks just great and provides enough contrast against the
> background image:
> 
> --- a/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh.orig
> +++ b/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh
> @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
>  WALLPAPER=/usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
> -COLOR_NORMAL=light-gray/black
> -COLOR_HIGHLIGHT=white/black
> +COLOR_NORMAL=white/black
> +COLOR_HIGHLIGHT=light-magenta/black

Thanks for the patch! :)

> 
> ALternatively, one could use black text on a magenta (not
> necessarily light-magenta) background, which would even more
> distinguish selected from non-selected menu entries.
> 
>  - Fabian

Thanks for your input :)

However, the swirl isn't Magenta -- it's white, and a red seems out of
place on a blue / white color theme.

Let's see if we can't find something that matches the color scheme :)

-Paul

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