sysinstall colours

[Randi Harper]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Alexander Best <
alexbestms at math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> hi there,
>
> sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries to avoid
> dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this
> beautiful
> screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer:
>
>
> http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg
>
> i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours compared
> to
> sysinstall.
>
> is there any way the sysinstall colours could be adjusted (without a lot of
> work) to also feature such beautiful colours? i had a quick look at the
> sysinstall, libdialog and ncurses sources and to me it seems that to change
> sysinstall's colours the hardcoded values of
>
> COLOR_BLACK
> COLOR_RED
> COLOR_GREEN
> COLOR_YELLOW
> COLOR_BLUE
> COLOR_MAGENTA
> COLOR_CYAN
> COLOR_WHITE
>
> have to be changed in contrib/ncurses/ncurses/base/lib_color.c or is there
> an
> easier way? because this would of course affect all apps that are linked to
> ncurses.
>
> cheers.
> alex
>

Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to change
the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer pink.

-- randi