netdev - Re: iproute2: color output should assume dark background

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Message-ID: <Zk9CehhJvVINJmAz@photonic.trudheim.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 15:19:54 +0200
From: Sirius <sirius@...dheim.com>
To: Gedalya <gedalya@...alya.net>
Cc: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: color output should assume dark background

In days of yore (Thu, 23 May 2024), Gedalya thus quoth: 
> Yes, echo -ne '\e]11;?\a' works on _some_ (libvte-based) terminals but not
> all. And a core networking utility should be allowed to focus on, ehhm,
> networking rather than oddities of a myriad terminals.

Then it perhaps should not add colour to the output in the first place and
focus solely on the networking.

A suggestion would be the iproute2 package revert the option to compile
colourised output as default, sticking to plain text output as that
require zero assumptions about the user terminal. Carry on offering the
'-c' switch to enable it at runtime.

-- 
Kind regards,

/S