On 1 Apr 2011, at 3:07 pm, Stefan Mark wrote:

On 01.04.2011 16:01, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:

On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:56 pm, Stefan Mark wrote:

On 01.04.2011 15:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:

On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:06 pm, pancake wrote:

You may see some other differences... and the missuse of bright when
bold
sometimes hurts my eyes... but some programs just are hard to read
without
it...

Why does no-one ever seem to consider just not using programs which are broken this badly, or at least filing serious bug reports on them? It's

They are not broken. As far as i understand it, both ways are correct.
Early terminals did not have bold fonts, so bold text was done using
higher brightness (which actually looked bold on these Eye burning
machines).

If "eye burning" is not broken, what is? That's my point.

Some people like it, some dont. It fits the standard (i think, seems a
bit complicated).

Some people like it so applications are made which hurt other people's eyes and then you find there's no good alternative to these apps... The only answers I can see are limitation and configuration, but the latter of course tends to suck and the former reeks of rigourous standards. Perhaps we need a suckless htop, *lol*.

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