Hi Allan, Thanks for the same-day reply. It's been a few years, so I'm guessing everyone's memory is a bit patchy (excuse the pun). If you take a look earlier in this thread, you'll see that you've (basically) already approved these changes.
It is difficult to judge the screenshots without side-by-side current vs > patched. But from what I can see, most of the colour used is for the > sake of having colour. > To make things easier for you, I've just added screenshots showing the current 'pacman' (colourised) output to the album <http://imgur.com/a/DL4ky>. The main purpose of having the extra colours is to make it easier for the brain to pick out the important bits (as noted earlier in this thread). > Colour should be used to highlight the important information. How do > you decide the URL is more important than the dependencies for -Si? Why > is the number of packages being installed highlighted yellow when that > is only used for warnings? > As mentioned at/near the start of the thread, I'm mainly trying to reproduce the old "pacman-color" output. Having the URL in cyan and the dependencies uncoloured is the way that "pacman-color" used to do it. Similarly, "pacman-color" used to highlight the number of packages to be installed in yellow. > I'd like to see individual changes proposed, with justification of how > they improve the readability of the pacman output. > Most of this has already been discussed earlier in the thread. Have a read of it when you get time and feel free to respond however you like. I realise that 'pacman' is your baby, and giving it tattoos is a big step :-). -- Regards, Xavion.
