For me the main problem is that the default color is not the terminal color.
The user can easily tune the terminal color and background on his
terminal client but he can not
tune our special colors there.
No color is good if you want to completely work without the colors but I
think the more typical case
is that you want colors for special highlights but not for the whole log.
I just looked into my gnome terminal config. It seems to provide
settings for a default color and a highlight color.
So one possible solution might be that we limit ourselves to just use
these two colors in most places. This would give the
user a much better control on the client side. Of course it limits a bit
what we do but I think that might be a case where such a self
limitation makes sense.
WDYT?
Christian
On 21.11.2016 10:19, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote:
Hi Christian,
I'm a bit surprised as the --no-color is always possible and you can
also create an alias.
So, if the issue is color or not color, I would recommend just a
--no-color alias.
If the colors themselves, then, no problem to use term colors and so
create a Jira.
Regards
JB
On 11/21/2016 10:15 AM, Christian Schneider wrote:
I fully agree with Brad that the default color is not very readable. It
also makes it difficult for users to change their terminal colors on
their client.
So I propose we change the default log color to the default terminal
color and only use other colors to highlight special things like
exceptions.
If we agree on this I will open a jira issue (if Brad does not do it
before) and change the color.
Christian
On 07.11.2016 17:34, Brad Johnson wrote:
I realize that Aries isn't the keeper of Karaf but there is more than
a little cross-pollination and I'm not on that mailing list. This is
a small but persistent concern.
It really is time for the default logging colors in Karaf to be
changed. They've been atrocious to read for a very long time. Yes,
they can be changed but I'm bouncing from client to client and version
to version and it's a hassle and reading burgundy on black is tiring
on the eyes and cyan on black isn't much of a step in the right
direction.
I'm sure most developers are like I and live in the log files and
tail:log constantly. Something as simple as a modification of the
color scheme would go a long way toward make the log files easier to
work with.
I'd be willing to say that a color change, any color change, would be
better than the defaults.
--
Christian Schneider
http://www.liquid-reality.de
Open Source Architect
http://www.talend.com
