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Message-ID: <3435957a9fd5645c2e12c471247cd98c@manjaro.org>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 15:47:16 +0200
From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>
To: Sirius <sirius@...dheim.com>
Cc: Gedalya <gedalya@...alya.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: color output should assume dark background
On 2024-05-23 15:19, Sirius wrote:
> 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.
Frankly, a better suggestion would be to leave that compile-time option
supported, but to suggest that it isn't used until the current issues
are
resolved, or until some stopgap measures are in place.
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