Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background

[Gedalya]

I'm trying ...

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/2c0a1779713b5bdd443a8e8258c7d...@manjaro.org/

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/e1s9rpa-0006jy7-1...@ws2.gedalya.net/

Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 16:41, Diederik de Haas  wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:57:40 CEST Gedalya wrote:
> > On 5/21/24 10:55 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > This has always been enabled by default, even in stable.
> >
> > What is the meaning of this line in the changelog for 6.9.0-1, and why does
> > it correlate with an actual change in behavior?
> >
> > Quote:
> >   * Enable output with colors on terminals
>
> Can confirm that the output changed significantly.
> Previously it was all gray-ish (on black) and after the upgrade it got all
> colorful.
> The (color) output I got when ssh-ed into another machine was (significantly)
> different then on my local PC. And the blue of the IPv6 addresses is indeed
> very hard to read.
>
> Took some screenshots to show it.

If you don't like the default settings, please send a patch upstream
to change them. I am not going to patch downstream (nor disable it)
for personal preferences, so reporting it here is just a waste of
time.

Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background

[Gedalya]

On 5/21/24 10:55 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> This has always been enabled by default, even in stable.

What is the meaning of this line in the changelog for 6.9.0-1, and why does it 
correlate with an actual change in behavior?

Quote:
  * Enable output with colors on terminals

Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: close -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 15:51, Gedalya  wrote:
>
> Package: iproute2
> Version: 6.9.0-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Hello,
>
> The newly enabled colored output is rather hard to read on dark backgrounds, 
> especially the deep blue color used for IPv6 addresses.
>
> Setting COLORFGBG=";0" as the manpage suggests helps a lot.
>
> Consider a scenario when this command is used under stress to manually bring 
> up networking from a VT. It's a rather basic command that would typically run 
> on a dark background and it's important for it to be accessible by default 
> without fiddling around too much.

This has always been enabled by default, even in stable. As per
manpage, you can disable it if you don't want it.

Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background

[Gedalya]

Package: iproute2
Version: 6.9.0-1
Severity: minor

Hello,

The newly enabled colored output is rather hard to read on dark backgrounds, 
especially the deep blue color used for IPv6 addresses.

Setting COLORFGBG=";0" as the manpage suggests helps a lot.

Consider a scenario when this command is used under stress to manually bring up 
networking from a VT. It's a rather basic command that would typically run on a 
dark background and it's important for it to be accessible by default without 
fiddling around too much.

Thanks!