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Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable
Date 2025-03-26 17:10 +0100
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:50:14 +0100 "Oliver M. Schode"
<oliver.schode@online.de> wrote:
> Package: iproute2
> Version: 6.13.0-1
> Followup-For: Bug #1088739
> 
> If it's wont-fix I guess the bug might as well be closed, or at least
> denoted as it certainly isn't something we can't work around. That
said
> I find the request about as reasonable as it gets, nor are we talking
> about mere matters of taste. On black background, which I still think
> isn't too uncommon, the default is indeed unreadable. Nothing to argue
> about. Then speaking of workarounds, I've been making do with an
alias:
> ip='ip -c=never'. Obviously far from optimal, maybe I could play
around
> with (another) environment variable that is only to do with colors,
> those too are beginning to pile up. At least why it would have to be
> blue, instead of say bright red, which is perfectly legible, I do not
> quite understand.

Today's upload of version 6.14.0-1 adds support for the widely used
NO_COLOR environment variable.

I've sent some additional patches (to this bug report, and upstream)
which seem to improve the readability of coloured text in GNOME Terminal
and xterm with a dark background.  Those haven't yet been applied
anywhere.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                      - Albert Einstein

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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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