Re: [Lynx-dev] link background in lynx-2.8.6-27

[Stephen Isard]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Thomas Dickey dickey-at-his.com |lynx-dev| wrote:
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> > Ok.  As I said, I don't think the packagers of my rpm really
> > intended yellow text on a white background, so I'll just say it is
> > happening in the default configuration and that setting
> > DEFAULT_COLORS to false gives the black background that their
> > lynx.lss specifies.  I'm not really fussy about the colors as long
> > as I can make out the text.  The oldlynx settings would be ok, as
> > would the colors that I think they were trying for.  I just don't
> > think lynx should come up unreadable by default.
>
> I agree - but there's a dilemma: turning default colors off by default
> makes lynx slower than needed for anyone who was happy with it as is.
> And there's no reliable way for lynx to determine which to do, other
> than the user's configuration (including $TERM setting).

Well, I wonder whether anyone is actually happy with yellow on white.  I 
think it's just an accident.  Why specify a black background in the 
..lss file if you want white?

An alternative if they are worried about speed would be to change the 
alink background in lynx.lss to some other dark color, like gray or dark 
blue.  We are talking here about an rpm package for a linux distribution 
which gives you terminals with white backgrounds by default, so I think 
it's fair to configure the lynx package to go along with that, and let 
people who want something else change their configuration files 
accordingly.

I don't really understand what is going on with DEFAULT_COLORS.  Why 
does specifying a black background in the .lss give you white (assuming 
the screen background is white), when specifying any other color - blue, 
green, red - gives you that color?

Stephen Isard