On 12/02/15 09:45, Felix Miata wrote: > Red, blue and green in particular produce poor contrast on the black > background of a typical framebuffer screen. Agreed, though the bold variants are better. Better again are 256 color variants. The Linux console lagged xterms in support, but does support it now. > As these screens are configured > as functional twins of those modes we find ourselves in at rescue time, it > amounts to an unfortunate and unnecessary accessibility/usability obstacle > that is IMO is a subset of a larger general problem found under the moniker > A11Y[1]. > > A very good, very recent article discusses the mindset that leads to default > settings that thwart use by the disadvantaged[2], however slight that > impediment may be. I agree completely. color is useful but one has to be very careful in how it's used. ls --color for example is too aggressive IMHO, and I adjust to highlight rather than color with: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l I've been pusing back upstream against adding new color combinations. > With util-linux >= 2.25 we can turn colors off via > > # touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable [3] > > for some commands, but far too few. It should apply to all, including many > outside the purview of util-linux, and more importantly, do so by default. coreutils will keep this scheme in mind too. thanks, Pádraig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
