These are two issues: 1) The dir_colors man page is definitely wrong. dircolors does not look at any files as far as I can see. So there is no easy way to customize the results other than doing this: dircolors --print > .dir_colors $EDITOR .dir_colors
and then call dircolors as: eval `dircolors ~/.dir_colors` That's not very nice especially since other behaviour is specified in the manpage and worthy of a seperate bug report. 2) The color issue. My tak on this is that it's impossible to do what you suggest and please everybody. In Ubuntu (Gnome) the terminal by default has a white background and yellow directories are barely readable if at all. Furthermore bash / dircolors has no idea what your background color might be, so we have to return one set of colors for all terminals. So in my opinion this is a problem of the terminal program (konsole in your case). It should set up its colormap in a way that all colors are readable on the current background. Please note for instance #202300, where the complaint is that the default color for directories is too *light* :) So I really think the only way to deal with this is to change the color schemes in the terminal programs. -- Bad default ls colors for directories https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
