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hi there,

sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries to avoid
dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this beautiful
screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer:

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg

i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours compared to
sysinstall.

is there any way the sysinstall colours could be adjusted (without a lot of
work) to also feature such beautiful colours? i had a quick look at the
sysinstall, libdialog and ncurses sources and to me it seems that to change
sysinstall's colours the hardcoded values of

COLOR_BLACK
COLOR_RED
COLOR_GREEN
COLOR_YELLOW
COLOR_BLUE
COLOR_MAGENTA
COLOR_CYAN
COLOR_WHITE

have to be changed in contrib/ncurses/ncurses/base/lib_color.c or is there an
easier way? because this would of course affect all apps that are linked to
ncurses.

cheers.
alex