On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:19:39PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-04-04, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> My point is that why should you have to edit something before > >> you can get legible output from something as basic as "ls". > >> Why not default to a _useful_ condition? > >> > > > > It's VERY legible on all of the systems I administer - but, then, I use > > the text-based console, not some horrible imitation in X. The colours > > make text far more legible in such an environment, accentuating the > > important bits very well. I see that as a "useful condition". Anyone who > > uses an X-based "console" should expect to have to tweak things to suit > > their own requirements. > > I don't use an X-based console. I do however use a lot of > X-based terminal windows.
Color output would be perfectly legible, or at least readable, if I doubled my X-terminal font size. But I want more lines and more characters on each line, not colors. I want the choice. Maybe I should accept crappy color for emerges and select a bigger font size for a special emerge-only xterm. But that's a Microserf solution. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list