Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:59:32 -0700 From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall colours Message-ID: <e277d6c80910091659i32b53ce3j702ac66af35432ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <permail-20091009195242f0889e8400003710-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> References: <permail-20091009195242f0889e8400003710-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Alexander Best < alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > hi there, > > sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries to avoid > dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this > beautiful > screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer: > > > http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg > > i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours compared > to > sysinstall. > > is there any way the sysinstall colours could be adjusted (without a lot of > work) to also feature such beautiful colours? i had a quick look at the > sysinstall, libdialog and ncurses sources and to me it seems that to change > sysinstall's colours the hardcoded values of > > COLOR_BLACK > COLOR_RED > COLOR_GREEN > COLOR_YELLOW > COLOR_BLUE > COLOR_MAGENTA > COLOR_CYAN > COLOR_WHITE > > have to be changed in contrib/ncurses/ncurses/base/lib_color.c or is there > an > easier way? because this would of course affect all apps that are linked to > ncurses. > > cheers. > alex > Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to change the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer pink. -- randi
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