Re: Request for testing: xterm 191

[Pekka Pietikainen <pp ee oulu fi>]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 03:24:39AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >Trying it on FC1 - The first thing I noticed is - the 'blue' color
> >used by 'ls --color=auto' for 'dir' listings is different (a bit
> >lighter shade. Not sure if this is a bug - but don't mind this new
> >color.
> Yep, that's one of the changes.  Upstream xterm's colors are 
> slightly different from what Red Hat has shipped.  I think they 
> used to be very ugly or something, so we added customizations to 
> make it prettier, then xterm cleaned itself up over time to look 
> nicer, but with slightly different shade of blue.  That's not 
> fact, just personal hypothesis.  ;o)
Would it be possible to get the same shade of blue for gnome-terminal too?
:-) :-) :-)

The thing is, color ls + gnome-terminal + white on black is useless since
the default dark blue used for directories is nearly invisible. Of course if
one knows the fix (making it lighter :-) ) everything is fine, and with a
white background it's ok too.

Let me guess... "Upstream" :-)

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Pekka Pietikainen