Re: Proposed default color change

[Alexander Skwar <ASkwar DigitalProjects com>]

So sprach Pavel Roskin am Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:50:42PM -0400:
> Here's a screenshot taken in X and rxvt 2.6.3 in its default color
> configuration: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/mc-color.png
>
> Can you easily see the dialog title "Listing mode"?
> Is it easy for you to read "Ok" on the button?

No, it's not easy.  But in your setup, it's not easy to see the short cuts. 

Other terminals display the colors more 'easily'.  See

http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_230517_shot.png

Your colors: http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_230422_shot.png

This is in a default Powershell terminal window.

gnome-terminal:
your colors:    http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_230751_shot.png
default:        http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_230739_shot.png

xterm:
your colors:    http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_230857_shot.png
default:        http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_230846_shot.png

rxvt:
your colors:    http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231125_shot.png
default:        http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231115_shot.png

aterm:
your colors:    http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231237_shot.png
default:        http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231226_shot.png

konsole (KDE):
your colors:    http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231328_shot.png
default:        http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231317_shot.png

kterm:
your colors:    http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231437_shot.png
default:        http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231424_shot.png

Eterm:
your colors:    http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231527_shot.png
default:        http://dp.ath.cx/~askwar/Shot/2001_05_31_231516_shot.png

And in the pure text console, the default colors are also nicely readable.

Alexander Skwar
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