Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:03:57 -0400 From: "Coleman Kane" <zombyfork@gmail.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC Message-ID: <346a80220604191003t359258egce45cc8bfc65970f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17478.26532.75132.709164@bhuda.mired.org> References: <20060419040716.4F26116A45F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060419095207.GC19339@wjv.com> <44462C07.4030903@centtech.com> <444634C1.9080206@centtech.com> <346a80220604190746n69a74a67te58599f743312cab@mail.gmail.com> <17478.22833.727876.432169@bhuda.mired.org> <346a80220604190900i3bfc3b54v93a4c6c30f0dfc4f@mail.gmail.com> <17478.26532.75132.709164@bhuda.mired.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 4/19/06, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org> wrote:
>
> In <346a80220604190900i3bfc3b54v93a4c6c30f0dfc4f@mail.gmail.com>, Coleman
> Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com> typed:
> > On 4/19/06, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org>
> wrote:
> > How about we all discuss good choices for "default" colors?
>
> Depends on the goal: do you want the default to work for everyone, or
> do you want the default to be prettier and/or better for most people
> but absolutely suck for a few?
I was thinking perhaps of having a predefined set of templates (with the
option and documentation to add your own). Perhaps implement one that
creates the "traffic-light" style that seems to make intuitive sense to man=
y
americans (Bold Red: error, Bold Green: Success, Bold Yellow:
warning/notice), and also have another perdefined one that uses a different
color set.
BTW, I know that blue and red are "bad" colors. How to the "emphasized" or
"emboldened" versions of these colors match up?
I like the former. Which means the defaults need to be black and
> white. Given a sufficiently flexible system for picking colors, we can
> use bold/underline/reversed as "colors". That might work well under
> that constraint.
I am merely talking about predefined color choices... of course if
rc_fancy_color=3D"NO" then fancyiness will be B+W. I'd like to know if ther=
e
are better choices than Red/Green/Yellow. To me Red/Green/Yellow make sense
to a lot of people because of their relation to our driving system here in
the states. Maybe something like Error=3DYellow, Good=3DBlue, Warn/Notice=
=3DGreen
is a better choice across the board.
<mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
> Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org=
"
>
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?346a80220604191003t359258egce45cc8bfc65970f>