On 12/30/2009 01:04 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I don't see the problem: it's readable for me when using > roxterm as my terminal emulator. > (snip) > That final line is rendered with a blue background and > with green foreground text, "other-writable". >
You meant green background with blue foreground text, I guess. > This sounds like a complaint about the default. > Anyone can use dircolors to set LS_COLORS to reflect their > personal preferences. > I absolutely agree, and have said so on other bugs. > Unless it's a problem for most people[*], I'm reluctant > to change this. Besides, world-writable directories can > pose a security risk, so you might consider the annoyance > to be a *feature*. Think of it as encouragement to change > permissions to something safer. > Heh, indeed. Meanwhile I went on and tested it on the default Linux console, plus konsole, roxterm, Gnome terminal, and guake. Turns out the *only* one to make the output difficult to read is Gnome terminal (all other things being equal: default black background, default colour palette, Bitstream Vera Mono 9). So, if there is a problem, it is not on Coreutils. Thank you, and sorry,
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