Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:56:09 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage" |
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On Oct 7 2007 21:13, Willy Tarreau wrote: >There are two distinct populations : > - those [...] > who would never have imagined that pressing Escape > during the boot of windows 3.1/95 provided them with the full text > messages.
This is news to me. DOS always showed messages, and under Win95, it was either F8 or removing logo.sys. I did troubleshoot it ;-)
> - those who are troubleshooting their system [...] > >I personally fit in the second category. > >I would say that while I'm not particularly fond of flashy colors >everywhere
I have to agree so really. Just because there's a color option for everything does not mean one should use it.
In fact, I moved away[2] from the default Midnight Commander styling because it's just - as Dave calls it - salad colors[1].
Some is good, as long as it is not excessive. While I could imagine that Knoppix will abuse the feature and use vt.printk_color=9,9,9,9,11,10,12, this is not what serious people would do.
[1] http://tinyurl.com/yr9zgq [2] http://tinyurl.com/234ba3
>, I think that being able to use colors to indicate particular >actions in progress or conditions can be a good thing. RAID errors, >devices disabled due to command-line parameters, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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