From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 10 00:27:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A445F1065676 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:27:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f192.google.com (mail-px0-f192.google.com [209.85.216.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772778FC0C for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi30 with SMTP id 30so5296892pxi.7 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:27:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=oMZ3ta28fLwGTZNOJyLHM7W0YSoR4Di+w8GQeMFAw6g=; b=JQjm2tLKsIJ7PK3Zx3Em2LfQnPHYa/C3cVHJAOSfn9TWooZo5WWdUpJWZW7BwIFJep k9Ur5YAMGjHMmfSAySPmWDdwXmLSSMQ7P4NQhXSuMYpD4zsjmqFJsUO1Vd3FsoQgJJak I7Y0Jhd6q8sS3GB6ow7BjYu7b2USZ7K7TYR98= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=JwkzcwNOq1dr0MjUJAfZGJz64rJnohPoeBSbJABKwi8ATsq6eQD1M9cna67bmh5a1Y Wo0otZa/VJg+EKpVCjSjVEebD5OJJW2lZgEdP45kNTiZ8lbSRlhLZHjZoc5dkATTK0B4 QMqQJZ27EkiZLSgaQXivMoM/sD9tVGnIsax6o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.75.1 with SMTP id x1mr272450wfa.194.1255132772425; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:59:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:59:32 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5dbb1326b0f0e235 Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Alexander Best Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall colours X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:27:55 -0000 On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Alexander Best < alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > 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 > Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to change the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer pink. -- randi