Your message dated Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:00:34 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#368543: Default colors (at least in x11, wxt and postscript terminals) are hardly readable has caused the Debian Bug report #368543, regarding Default colors (at least in x11, wxt and postscript terminals) are hardly readable to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gnuplot Version: 4.0.0+4.1.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, By default, gnuplot's flashy colors are hardly readable since the default background is white: - black (0) is ok - red (1) is usually slightly ok - green (2) may seem ok on the screen, but it isn't at all on beamers for instance. - blue (3) is usually ok - pink (4) is not so ok - skyblue (5) is even less ok. - yellow (6) is just _unreadable_, even on the screen. The unfortunate effect is that all students get bad marks for their very first presentation just because the software they chose to use (gnuplot) doesn't have good default colors. And even when they are aware of the problem, they have to always change the colors for more readble ones, while defaults ones should be nice. Couldn't darker colors be used by default? For instance with this in term/post.trm: static const char GPFAR * GPFAR PS_linecolors[] = { "% Default Line colors\n", "/LCw { 1 1 1 } def\n", "/LCb { 0 0 0 } def\n", "/LCa { 0 0 0 } def\n", "/LC0 { 0.8 0 0 } def\n", "/LC1 { 0 0.8 0 } def\n", "/LC2 { 0 0 0.8 } def\n", "/LC3 { 0.8 0 0.8 } def\n", "/LC4 { 0 0.8 0.8 } def\n", "/LC5 { 0.8 0.8 0 } def\n", "/LC6 { 0 0 0 } def\n", "/LC7 { 0.8 0.5 0 } def\n", "/LC8 { 0.5 0.5 0.5 } def\n", NULL }; it looks quite better (see http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/test2.eps , to compare with http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/test.eps ) And please report upstream. Thanks, Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages gnuplot depends on: ii gnuplot-nox 4.0.0+4.1.0-1 A command-line driven interactive ii gnuplot-x11 4.0.0+4.1.0-1 X11-terminal driver for gnuplot gnuplot recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---FWIW, it seems upstream gnuplot at last understood they could do something about it: gnuplot 5 now defaults to the set of colors recommended by Wong [Nature Methods 8, 441]. Thus closing the bug. Samuel
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