lynx-dev Re: lynx2-8-4dev.20 -- patch: default colors

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Philip Webb wrote:

> did you miss this one or decide it wasn't an improvement?
> i do doubt that the existing default was the result of serious thought.

an example (for the samples directory) that included lynx.cfg would be
a better way of doing this.  color choices are too subjective to make
many people like it.

along those lines, the reason I added to lynx.cfg and lynx.lss include
semantics was to make Ilya's bright-blue.lss work (as given, it had an
absolute pathname to include lynx.lss, which was not suitable as such).

> 
> 010308 Philip Webb wrote:
> > the current debate re background colors is passing me by,
> > but i would like to suggest an improved default offering in  lynx.cfg .
> > after some experimentation, i've been trying it for daily newspaper reading
> > & find it gives a good balance of page effect vs readability of text.
> > it should be equally effective with a white or black/blue default 
> > background,
> > except for giving color `0' a white foreground in the latter case.
> > it is doubtful whether the current offering was the result of much thought.
> > 
> > --- /old/lynx.cfg   Tue Feb 27 17:50:52 2001
> > +++ /new/lynx.cfg   Sun Mar  4 01:05:52 2001
> > @@ -2784,15 +2635,14 @@
> >  #
> >  # Uncomment and change any of the compilation defaults.
> >  #
> > -#COLOR:0:black:white
> > -#COLOR:1:blue:white
> > -#COLOR:2:yellow:blue
> > -#COLOR:3:green:white
> > -#COLOR:4:magenta:white
> > -#COLOR:5:blue:white
> > -#COLOR:6:red:white
> > -#COLOR:7:magenta:cyan
> > -
> > +COLOR:0:black:default
> > +COLOR:1:yellow:brightblue
> > +COLOR:2:yellow:green
> > +COLOR:3:green:default
> > +COLOR:4:blue:default
> > +COLOR:5:yellow:brightblue
> > +COLOR:6:yellow:red
> > +COLOR:7:red:default
> >  
> >  .h2 ASSUMED_COLOR
> >  # If built with a library that recognizes default colors, initializes it
> 
> 

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