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

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  Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background Gedalya <gedalya@gedalya.net> - 2024-05-21 17:00 +0200
    Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> - 2024-05-21 18:00 +0200
    Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background Gedalya <gedalya@gedalya.net> - 2024-05-22 22:00 +0200

#1198186 — Bug#1071582: ip: Poor color choice for dark background

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!

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#1198192

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 16:41, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> 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.

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#1198283

I'm trying ...

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/2c0a1779713b5bdd443a8e8258c7dc66@manjaro.org/

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/E1s9rpA-00000006Jy7-18Q5@ws2.gedalya.net/

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