Re: Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable
> I think it is inappropriate that you put your personal preferences
> over usability in general. It is unreasonable to set a font color
> without taking the background color into account.
I think it is inappropriate that you put your personal preferences over
usability in general. It is unreasonable to unset a font color for
everyone because of your personal, non-default choices of
desktop/terminal themes. If a user prefers not to have colors, he is
still free to configure iproute2 in his private environment
accordingly.
iproute2 produces dozens of lines of dense output, and color-coding
fields greatly enhances readability and usability in the general and
default cases.
> PS: The color=auto is set in Debian's control/rules file (overriding
> upstream's default), so what are you actually talking about?
I am actually talking about the original email, which is referring to
the choice of color for some field. Quoting verbatim:
> Blue on a black background is as impossible to read as yellow on
> white.
Whether to use blue or yellow or any other specific color for a
specific field is just how iproute2 is coded. If you want to have
specific fields use different specific colors, you'll need to propose
such changes upstream.
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