Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756152AbXJGT4S (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754388AbXJGT4L (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:56:11 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:47115 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753381AbXJGT4K (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:56:10 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:56:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Willy Tarreau cc: Rene Herman , Ingo Molnar , Oleg Verych , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Jones , Krzysztof Halasa , Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 , Helge Deller Subject: Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage" In-Reply-To: <20071007191309.GS10199@1wt.eu> Message-ID: References: <20071006195105.GE22435@flower.upol.cz> <20071006194820.GA30579@elte.hu> <20071006210349.GG22435@flower.upol.cz> <20071007060706.GA18768@elte.hu> <20071007111035.GO22435@flower.upol.cz> <20071007161255.GA22102@elte.hu> <470929D8.80003@keyaccess.nl> <20071007191309.GS10199@1wt.eu> 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: 1472 Lines: 39 On Oct 7 2007 21:13, Willy Tarreau wrote: >There are two distinct populations : > - those [...] > who would never have imagined that pressing Escape > during the boot of windows 3.1/95 provided them with the full text > messages. This is news to me. DOS always showed messages, and under Win95, it was either F8 or removing logo.sys. I did troubleshoot it ;-) > - those who are troubleshooting their system [...] > >I personally fit in the second category. > >I would say that while I'm not particularly fond of flashy colors >everywhere I have to agree so really. Just because there's a color option for everything does not mean one should use it. In fact, I moved away[2] from the default Midnight Commander styling because it's just - as Dave calls it - salad colors[1]. Some is good, as long as it is not excessive. While I could imagine that Knoppix will abuse the feature and use vt.printk_color=9,9,9,9,11,10,12, this is not what serious people would do. [1] http://tinyurl.com/yr9zgq [2] http://tinyurl.com/234ba3 >, I think that being able to use colors to indicate particular >actions in progress or conditions can be a good thing. RAID errors, >devices disabled due to command-line parameters, - 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/