Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #310464, revision 2 Title: Changer text console color openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Description: Feature for  yast  change console color. And green color for console by default. I think green is opensuse color. For first console stay white, for best look boot log. + Discussion: + #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-09-02 19:01:10) + It's a psychological thing. +   + A color's brightness × area covered by said color = desired to be + minimal for the background color. +   + And that happens to be black or blue in most cases; for graphical + feebles white seems to be also acceptable, but staring at a + brightcolored background.. I'm just waiting for everybody to get nuts. + Try it yourself... xterm -bg "#FF00FF". + Everybody knows that. You will find many console applications - + especially from the DOS area - that used blue as a background (in case + they did not use black). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310464

Feature changed by: Marcel Witte (balta3) Feature #310464, revision 4 Title: Changer text console color openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Description: Feature for  yast  change console color. And green color for console by default. I think green is opensuse color. For first console stay white, for best look boot log. Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-09-02 19:01:10) It's a psychological thing.   A color's brightness × area covered by said color = desired to be minimal for the background color.   And that happens to be black or blue in most cases; for graphical feebles white seems to be also acceptable, but staring at a brightcolored background.. I'm just waiting for everybody to get nuts. Try it yourself... xterm -bg "#FF00FF". Everybody knows that. You will find many console applications - especially from the DOS area - that used blue as a background (in case they did not use black). #2: nick skeen (ns89) (2010-09-05 18:57:10) Green can be a hard color for some people to see. It's one of the most common colors affected by colorblindness. So I'm not sure this would be a good idea. + #3: Marcel Witte (balta3) (2010-09-06 11:47:20) + I also think green by default would be not a good idea. But a simple + configuration-option in yast would be very nice. So everyone can set + this to a color he likes, I would prefer other colors like this antique + white to black ;) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310464

Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #310464, revision 6 Title: Changer text console color - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.4: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) + reject reason: Not done for 11.4 and seems to be unpopular. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Feature for  yast  change console color. And green color for console by default. I think green is opensuse color. For first console stay white, for best look boot log. Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-09-02 19:01:10) It's a psychological thing.   A color's brightness × area covered by said color = desired to be minimal for the background color.   And that happens to be black or blue in most cases; for graphical feebles white seems to be also acceptable, but staring at a brightcolored background.. I'm just waiting for everybody to get nuts. Try it yourself... xterm -bg "#FF00FF". Everybody knows that. You will find many console applications - especially from the DOS area - that used blue as a background (in case they did not use black). #2: nick skeen (ns89) (2010-09-05 18:57:10) Green can be a hard color for some people to see. It's one of the most common colors affected by colorblindness. So I'm not sure this would be a good idea. #3: Marcel Witte (balta3) (2010-09-06 11:47:20) I also think green by default would be not a good idea. But a simple configuration-option in yast would be very nice. So everyone can set this to a color he likes, I would prefer other colors like this antique white to black ;) #4: Chris Cunningham (eagles500) (2010-09-11 14:49:11) dont know green is one of the colors that is most affected by color blindness and it is the color that displays have the hardest time reproducing. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310464