Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Mon, 21 May 2001 22:42:13 -0400


Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>:
> What happened with the discussion on configurable colors in make
> menuconfig? Darkblue on black as frozen options get isn't exactly optimal
> ... at least not for my eyes. Being next to a bold, white text doesn't
> help either.

Nobody could come up with a way to support configurable colors that didn't seem
like way more trouble than it was worth.

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