Your message dated Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:33:55 +1000
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and subject line Re: Bug#454300 can be closed, fixed in 0.7.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #454300,
regarding dstat: color yellow on white xterm bg inpossible to read
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Package: dstat
Version: 0.6.6-5
Severity: important
This is basically the same as #437133, but upgraded in severity because
it is unusable by anyone who uses a white xterm/rxvt background.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22rlj_smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dstat depends on:
ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.5.15 register and build utility for Pyt
dstat recommends no packages.
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Version: 0.7.0-1
Thanks Dag, closing this bug.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> I added the option --bw/--blackonwhite for users with a white background.
> There's not much more I can do at this point. However I am interested in
> feedback about the colors used (I am sure we can improve the default theme
> for --blackonwhite).
>
> Dstat now internally has 'theme' support, but the only way for a user to
> influence anything is with the --bw/--blackonwhite option. I don't know
> how we could extend this in the future, but I don't want to make it too
> complicated, so I guess a good color-set is most important right now.
>
> Also any clever ideas to make this somehow discoverable would be accepted
> as well. I hate it that people on white backgrounds have to use an option
> to make it (at all) useful.
>
> PS There always was the option --nocolor, which disable colors
> completely. Which may give a better experience for some users.
>
> I guess we can close that bug after 2 years now :-)
>
> --
> -- dag wieers, [email protected], http://dag.wieers.com/ --
> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
>
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