Re: ls coloured output for others writable directories difficult to read

[C de-Avillez]

On 12/30/2009 01:04 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I don't see the problem: it's readable for me when using
> roxterm as my terminal emulator.
>   
(snip)
> That final line is rendered with a blue background and
> with green foreground text, "other-writable".
>   

You meant green background with blue foreground text, I guess.

> This sounds like a complaint about the default.
> Anyone can use dircolors to set LS_COLORS to reflect their
> personal preferences.
>   

I absolutely agree, and have said so on other bugs.

> Unless it's a problem for most people[*], I'm reluctant
> to change this.  Besides, world-writable directories can
> pose a security risk, so you might consider the annoyance
> to be a *feature*.  Think of it as encouragement to change
> permissions to something safer.
>   

Heh, indeed.

Meanwhile I went on and tested it on the default Linux console, plus 
konsole, roxterm, Gnome terminal, and guake. Turns out the *only* one to
make the output difficult to read is Gnome terminal (all other things
being equal: default black background, default colour palette, Bitstream
Vera Mono 9).

So, if there is a problem, it is not on Coreutils.

Thank you, and sorry,

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