gcc.css colors

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

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