Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

[Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca>]

On 18/07/18 05:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> > On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> > > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you
> > > fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three
> > > wildly different code bases)
> >
> > Good call, sir!  Indeed, when I did the fresh install of Stretch,
> > the default terminal run from the panel (exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator)
> > had changed to gnome-terminal.  A bit of web searching came up with the
> > exo-preferred-application command, which let me re-configure the default
> > terminal emulator to Xfce Terminal.  All is well again.  Thanks!
> >
> > (Do the Gnome people like pastels?)
>
> As far as I can tell, the guiding principle of the GNOME project
> these days is "I like it, so that's what you should use."
>
> Only I don't like it.

I tried Ubuntu for a while, and was fairly impressed.  And then Unity 
happened...

> Luckily, we live in a world full of choices, and the decision to
> use a particular desktop environment (or not) is reasonably easy
> to change.

Try to explain that to a Windows vict^H^H^H^Huser.  His brain would explode.

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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)