Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763720AbXJETcU (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:32:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759784AbXJETcN (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:32:13 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:38057 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759272AbXJETcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:32:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:32:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Lennart Sorensen cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output In-Reply-To: <20071005192404.GB4003@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: References: <20071005191940.GA4003@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20071005192404.GB4003@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 21 On Oct 5 2007 15:24, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:21:57PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Indeed it should be 0x07, should it go in. >> Otherwise the openbsd camp might start another flamewar. >> >> (On a personal note, would 0x1F work better for you?) > >No, I actually find most things hard to read on a blue background. >Besides black uses less power on a CRT (and probably OLED as well) >monitor. LCDs probably don't care. :) > Ah you seem to be a proponent of http://www.blackgoogle.com/ then :-) Unfortunately, it seems like Xft uses Grayscale AA (http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html) so black background make the font look thinner. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/