Somewhere in the past couple of releases, the colors in the text mode installer changed so that it uses red on blue for text entry fields, instead of yellow on blue. Red may be more redhat-like, but it's not very readable on the blue. I'm a bit perplexed as to where this change is implemented -- newt still appears to have yellow on blue as its default palette.
Can someone help me out? Thanks!
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:43:02PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Somewhere in the past couple of releases, the colors in the text mode installer changed so that it uses red on blue for text entry fields, instead of yellow on blue. Red may be more redhat-like, but it's not very readable on the blue. I'm a bit perplexed as to where this change is implemented -- newt still appears to have yellow on blue as its default palette. Can someone help me out? Thanks!
Hmmm. Either this one is very difficult or so easy everyone thinks I'm stupid. :)
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:09, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:43:02PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Somewhere in the past couple of releases, the colors in the text mode installer changed so that it uses red on blue for text entry fields, instead of yellow on blue. Red may be more redhat-like, but it's not very readable on the blue. I'm a bit perplexed as to where this change is implemented -- newt still appears to have yellow on blue as its default palette. Can someone help me out? Thanks!
Hmmm. Either this one is very difficult or so easy everyone thinks I'm stupid. :)
Certainly not the latter. Where do you see that newt has yellow on blue?
Forrest
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:47:40AM -0700, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
Hmmm. Either this one is very difficult or so easy everyone thinks I'm stupid. :)
Certainly not the latter. Where do you see that newt has yellow on blue?
It used to all the time. Look at anaconda in older versions of RHL.
And if you look in newt.c in newt itself, in "struct newtColors newtDefaultColorPalette", there's plently of entries like:
"yellow", "blue", /* checkbox fg, bg */
"yellow", "blue", /* entry box fg, bg */
"yellow", "blue", /* active listbox fg, bg */
"yellow", "blue", /* root text */
"yellow", "red", /* active & sel listbox */
so it doesn't look like that's changed....
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:52:59PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
It used to all the time. Look at anaconda in older versions of RHL.
Hmmm. Or run 'system-config-securitylevel-tui' in a gnome-terminal. Yellow! But it's red in a text-mode console. Something new/weird/different with the console driver?
Matthew Miller (mattdm@mattdm.org) said:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:52:59PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
It used to all the time. Look at anaconda in older versions of RHL.
Hmmm. Or run 'system-config-securitylevel-tui' in a gnome-terminal. Yellow! But it's red in a text-mode console. Something new/weird/different with the console driver?
Unicode uses the extra characters for extra language support instead of bold.
Bill
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:01:18PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Hmmm. Or run 'system-config-securitylevel-tui' in a gnome-terminal. Yellow! But it's red in a text-mode console. Something new/weird/different with the console driver?
Unicode uses the extra characters for extra language support instead of bold.
Ahhh! Okay, that makes sense. In fact, when I look closely, I can see that it's not red, but dark brown.
Hmmm. I guess it's not really a bug per se, but something somewhere needs to work around this better. Newt, I guess. Can it _tell_ when bold colors aren't available? I suppose not. In that case, I suppose selecting a whole new color scheme is an option.... off to poke at Newt....
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