On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:02:34PM +0100, Jim Mintha wrote: > Does anyone know the reason we seems to move from ncurses to slang. > I'm the slang maintainer, but this was before I took it over. I know > I used to have problem with colours with ncurses, which moving to > slang fixes, but perhaps that was with older ncurses. There does seem > to be a lot of problems with colours and the current slang. The problem is and always was that the colors used by xterm specifically are backwards in terms of red and blue from the colors use by ... uh, EVERYTHING ELSE. Changing this in xterm breaks the tradition of what the colors are in xterm. Leaving it causes applications to bend over backwards trying to cope. Either way it's going to annoy somebody. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <rcw> dark: caldera? <Knghtbrd> rcw - that's not a distribution, it's a curse <rcw> Knghtbrd: it's a cursed distribution
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