On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:27:07PM -0500, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Personally, I feel this hardcoding of colors in the application is a > > downside of X. > > One of the few visual things I miss from OS/2. There I had my apps set to > white on black and they all behaved properly. Colors were set in the OS' > configuration not the application's. The apps could override, obviously, but > their default was the OS' settings. Combine that with a quick way to switch > color schemes (which OS/2 had) and you could easily have your desire for > different color schemes based on the lighting conditions you were operating > under.
I spent a year camping, with a laptop. I created several config files for different apps (e.g. lynx, dialog) so I could specify 'day' or 'night'. Ditto with setterm. I find white on black difficult to read if there's light behind me due to reflections competing with the letters. In that case, 'day', black on white worked better. At night, I liked amber on black and used that. So I had scripts 'day' and 'night'. Log in, type 'day' or 'night' and I got the environment I liked. For X, I had an icon for a 'day' term and one for 'night'. Then again, 95% of my time I spend out of X. I was very pleased with this setup until my tent got hit by lightening with me (and the laptop) in it. Now my laptop is very much 'night': black on black and perfectly silent :-) Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
