On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:23:57PM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > On Thursday 14 August 2008 13:59:37 Philipp Kempgen wrote: > > Jared Smith schrieb: > > > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:35 +0200, Philipp Kempgen wrote: > > >> Whenever something spits out lines with a different background > > >> color (of a varying runlength!) my eyes start to hurt. > > > > > > You can turn of the ANSI color support completely by adding > > > "nocolor=yes" to the [options] section of asterisk.conf and then > > > restarting Asterisk. > > > > Sure. But I want colored output on my default background color. > > > > :-) > > > > ls with dircolors works perfectly. So I was curious if there > > is a reason for Asterisk to behave differently (forcing the > > background color to black). > > Because nobody else ever asked, perhaps?
No, I would suspect that it's because there's probably a subconscious perception that colorcoded text "works better" on black than white, and indeed, it does: you often have to fiddle the colors chosen to get it to be readable against black: the default red has too little luminance to stand out from black, for instance. It's the same problem as backlit keyboards with silver coatings, or the display on a Palm IIIe: in certain lighting conditions, you simply can't read it at all. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
