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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf/tui: Change default selection background color to yellow
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:32:13AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Boris reported that 'perf top' is unusable on his default 'black on
> white' terminal, which uses (eye friendly) light-grey as a background
> color.
>
> The reason is that the TUI cursor for the current selection line uses
> HE_COLORSET_SELECTED, and that has a default background color of
> 'lightgrey' - which is a common terminal background choice and thus
> the colors conflict.
>
> Use yellow as the background color instead: that should be an uncommon
> terminal background, yet it's still ergonomic on both black and
> white/grey terminals.
>
> [ It would be a better solution to straight out detect color
> collisions and resolve them reasonably by converting them to RGB and
> calculating color space distances, but I was unable to find
> proper documentation for SLtt_get_color_object() to recover the
> current color scheme so I gave up ... Yellow works well enough. ]
>
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>

-and-tested-by: Boris

Thanks.

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Boris.

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