On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:41:17AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 10.07.2012 11:21, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > >I'd vote for magenta as color for the highlighted text. I think it > >also was like this when text-on-background was first introduced in > >GRUB and magenta comes most close to the color of the Debian swirl. > > IMHO, this looks just great and provides enough contrast against the > background image: > > --- a/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh.orig > +++ b/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh > @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ > WALLPAPER=/usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png > -COLOR_NORMAL=light-gray/black > -COLOR_HIGHLIGHT=white/black > +COLOR_NORMAL=white/black > +COLOR_HIGHLIGHT=light-magenta/black
Thanks for the patch! :) > > ALternatively, one could use black text on a magenta (not > necessarily light-magenta) background, which would even more > distinguish selected from non-selected menu entries. > > - Fabian Thanks for your input :) However, the swirl isn't Magenta -- it's white, and a red seems out of place on a blue / white color theme. Let's see if we can't find something that matches the color scheme :) -Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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