Ahoj,
I have recently added an article to openSUSE wiki about setting the color theme for the textmode YaST, see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Tips#Color_theme_for_textmode_YaST. It describes how to set the color theme manually (the feature was added by Bubli and is available since 10.3) and how to create a customized theme by starting a style edit menu.
Well, this is really nice, but isn't recompiling the whole package just in order to use self-made, customized theme a little bit clumsy? I mean, even expert users will be reluctant to do it, so what is the use of such feature then? And why does one have to export some environment variable if (s)he wants to run theme customization app? Couldn't we just enable it by default? The keyboard shortcut to launch it is so complex (emacs-like *evil grin*) that hardly anyone will hit it by accident. Many text-mode applications (e.g. Midnight commander) allow customizing the theme by simple text file, often in ini format. Couldn't we do that as well, dump the result of user-made theme customizations into text file (e.g. in $HOME/.y2ncursesrc) and on ncurses initialization, check the existence of the file and read these settings, if present? One more thing, though: please fix the segfault that occurs on exiting YaST after theme customization app has been used. I will open a bugreport for that. B. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter