Hey acme,
it seems you've forgotten this one.
I still need it please :-)
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:32:13AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Boris reported that 'perf top' is unusable on his default 'black on
> white' terminal, which uses (eye friendly) light-grey as a background
> color.
>
> The reason is that the TUI cursor for the current selection line uses
> HE_COLORSET_SELECTED, and that has a default background color of
> 'lightgrey' - which is a common terminal background choice and thus
> the colors conflict.
>
> Use yellow as the background color instead: that should be an uncommon
> terminal background, yet it's still ergonomic on both black and
> white/grey terminals.
>
> [ It would be a better solution to straight out detect color
> collisions and resolve them reasonably by converting them to RGB and
> calculating color space distances, but I was unable to find
> proper documentation for SLtt_get_color_object() to recover the
> current color scheme so I gave up ... Yellow works well enough. ]
>
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Binderman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> ---
> tools/perf/ui/browser.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
> index 6680fa5cb9dd..688acb94c01f 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
> @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static struct ui_browser_colorset {
> .colorset = HE_COLORSET_SELECTED,
> .name = "selected",
> .fg = "black",
> - .bg = "lightgray",
> + .bg = "yellow",
> },
> {
> .colorset = HE_COLORSET_CODE,
>
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
Em Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:55:16AM +0100, Borislav Petkov escreveu:
> Hey acme,
>
> it seems you've forgotten this one.
>
> I still need it please :-)
Applying it now, thanks for the reminder.
- Arnaldo
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:32:13AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Boris reported that 'perf top' is unusable on his default 'black on
> > white' terminal, which uses (eye friendly) light-grey as a background
> > color.
> >
> > The reason is that the TUI cursor for the current selection line uses
> > HE_COLORSET_SELECTED, and that has a default background color of
> > 'lightgrey' - which is a common terminal background choice and thus
> > the colors conflict.
> >
> > Use yellow as the background color instead: that should be an uncommon
> > terminal background, yet it's still ergonomic on both black and
> > white/grey terminals.
> >
> > [ It would be a better solution to straight out detect color
> > collisions and resolve them reasonably by converting them to RGB and
> > calculating color space distances, but I was unable to find
> > proper documentation for SLtt_get_color_object() to recover the
> > current color scheme so I gave up ... Yellow works well enough. ]
> >
> > Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Binderman <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/ui/browser.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
> > index 6680fa5cb9dd..688acb94c01f 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
> > @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static struct ui_browser_colorset {
> > .colorset = HE_COLORSET_SELECTED,
> > .name = "selected",
> > .fg = "black",
> > - .bg = "lightgray",
> > + .bg = "yellow",
> > },
> > {
> > .colorset = HE_COLORSET_CODE,
> >
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.