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Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable

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On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:46:27 +0100 Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> wrote:
> Package: iproute2
> Version: 6.12.0-1
>
> Blue on a black background is as impossible to read as yellow on
> white. Obviously it is not reasonable to modify the foreground
> color without taking the background color into accout. Could you
> please make sure ip and the other tools in iproute2 produce a
> readable output *by default*?

See the manpage, you can set COLORFGBG in your shell profile according
to your configuration.
There are no patches or color choices downstream, it's just what
upstream provides, so if you don't like their choice of a default,
please bring it up upstream, we will not carry out-of-tree patches to
customise something like this for one particular user, sorry.

See:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/E1s9rpA-00000006Jy7-18Q5@ws2.gedalya.net/
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/173e0ec8-583a-4d5a-931f-81d08e43fe2b@gedalya.net/

Feel free to chime in those discussions.

> AFAIU upstream's default is COLOR_OPT_NEVER, see commit
> c31fd80a2268c0b1b77e1d65827003a2327315b8 . Sounds reasonable to
> me.

It sounds unreasonable to me, I like having colors in the output, it
makes it so much more readable. This is quite literally bike shedding.

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Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> - 2024-11-30 11:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> - 2024-11-30 12:50 +0100
    Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2024-12-02 12:20 +0100
      Re: Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2024-12-03 20:30 +0100
        Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2024-12-03 21:00 +0100
    Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2024-12-02 12:40 +0100
    Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-12-21 15:50 +0100
      Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-01-02 11:20 +0100
      Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2025-01-02 21:00 +0100
  Processed: Re: colors make ip's output unreadable "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-11-30 12:50 +0100
  Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2024-11-30 14:50 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-12-21 15:50 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-01-02 21:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Axel Scheepers <axel.scheepers76@gmail.com> - 2025-01-12 13:30 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> - 2025-03-18 09:20 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable "Oliver M. Schode" <oliver.schode@online.de> - 2025-03-19 14:10 +0100
    Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-03-26 17:10 +0100
      Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 19:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] color: Introduce and use default_color_opt() function Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-19 23:00 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 2/2] color: Handle NO_COLOR environment variable in default_color_opt() Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-19 23:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 0/2] Improve coloured text readability Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 15:10 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 2/2] color: Do not use dark blue in dark-background palette Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 15:20 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] color: Assume background is dark if unknown Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 15:20 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 0/2] Improve coloured text readability patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org - 2025-04-06 19:20 +0200
  Bug#1088739: marked as done (colors make ip's output unreadable) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-04-06 21:20 +0200

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