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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:02:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: jeff gerard <jeff-lk@gerard.st>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] menuconfig color sanity
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, jeff gerard wrote:

> using yellow and green text with a "white" background in menuconfig works all
> right on console, but it looks like crap under xterm, rxvt, etc. no
> matter whose fault that is, the trivial patch below makes things more
> readable without any major change in appearance. applies to 2.4 and 2.5.
> 
> now you can stop wondering about support for "lug and play", "mateur radio", 
> and "elephony" in the linux kernel.

Man, did you look at this on a console? That is uglier than a hedgehog's
asshole! Good idea, poor implementation. Please retry, the default colors
are not as bad on an xterm as the new colors on a console. And with small
memory machines I sure don't build kernels using X! 

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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