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For me, the default colours of aptitude are not particularly eye-straining or anything like the combinations that you mention (unless they were changed since the bug was submitted, but I don't think so and I've been using aptitude for more than a decade). "white on blue is good. white on black is good", and those are the default colours for me. So unless you mean some special menus or error messages, or that it behaves differently depending on the background of the terminal (mine is black), I am not sure about what you are talking about. If you don't like "Light Blue on Orange is unreadable", just don't switch to that theme or use those colours, I think that it's the easiest solution. It might have its uses though, e.g. if you want to show aptitude running on openmoko to your friends in a rave. And in general, I think that your tone is a bit inappropriate, because no developer has to be forced to read books on design to publish software that they create in their free time, or are expect to be knowledgeable in every field. Since you seem to be interested in that field, perhaps you have suggestions of concrete things to fix, and it will be more helpful, but this bug as it is is not very useful. Here's the documentation about colours (also available installing aptitude-doc-en): http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s03.html Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
