[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[Coleman Kane]

On 4/19/06, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e at mired.org> wrote:
>
> In <346a80220604190900i3bfc3b54v93a4c6c30f0dfc4f at mail.gmail.com>, Coleman
> Kane <zombyfork at gmail.com> typed:
> > On 4/19/06, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e at mired.org>
> wrote:
> > How about we all discuss good choices for "default" colors?
>
> Depends on the goal: do you want the default to work for everyone, or
> do you want the default to be prettier and/or better for most people
> but absolutely suck for a few?


I was thinking perhaps of having a predefined set of templates (with the
option and documentation to add your own). Perhaps implement one that
creates the "traffic-light" style that seems to make intuitive sense to many
americans (Bold Red: error, Bold Green: Success, Bold Yellow:
warning/notice), and also have another perdefined one that uses a different
color set.

BTW, I know that blue and red are "bad" colors. How to the "emphasized" or
"emboldened" versions of these colors match up?

I like the former. Which means the defaults need to be black and
> white. Given a sufficiently flexible system for picking colors, we can
> use bold/underline/reversed as "colors". That might work well under
> that constraint.


I am merely talking about predefined color choices... of course if
rc_fancy_color="NO" then fancyiness will be B+W. I'd like to know if there
are better choices than Red/Green/Yellow. To me Red/Green/Yellow make sense
to a lot of people because of their relation to our driving system here in
the states. Maybe something like Error=Yellow, Good=Blue, Warn/Notice=Green
is a better choice across the board.

        <mike
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