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Re: gcc.css colors
- From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf dot de>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 12:50:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: gcc.css colors
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On 2017.02.01 at 12:41 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 12:27:05PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > I've tried various color settings of gnome-terminal (both white on black and
> > > black on white plus the different color sets) and all of them except
> > > for Solarized (which is shades of grey) look much brighter than your colors.
> >
> > See attached screenshot. (I use konsole, but even gnome-terminal
> > supports truecolor now. So one has complete freedom in choosing the
> > default colors.)
>
> Sure, one can customize anything. The point is, what colors are configured
> by default and thus used by most of the users?
>
> Just tried konsole (both Linux colors and Black on white) look like this
> here:
This points to the core of the issue. I guess most users use a dark
(black) background in the terminal. And on a black background the
gcc.css colors are perfectly readable. But because we use a white
background on the website, the colors have way too little contrast and
become hard to read.
--
Markus