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Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

From	Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?
Date	2018-07-22 00:10 +0200
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On 2018-07-19, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you
>> > fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three
>> > wildly different code bases)
>> 
>> Good call, sir!  Indeed, when I did the fresh install of Stretch,
>> the default terminal run from the panel (exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator)
>> had changed to gnome-terminal.  A bit of web searching came up with the
>> exo-preferred-application command, which let me re-configure the default
>> terminal emulator to Xfce Terminal.  All is well again.  Thanks!
>> 
>> (Do the Gnome people like pastels?)
>
> As far as I can tell, the guiding principle of the GNOME project
> these days is "I like it, so that's what you should use."
>
> Only I don't like it.
>
> Luckily, we live in a world full of choices, and the decision to
> use a particular desktop environment (or not) is reasonably easy
> to change.
>
> I like XFCE, urxvt, and vim and mutt and slrn. Other people can
> have different preferences, and that's just fine.
>
> -dsr-
>
>

It's also easy to change the colour palette used by gnome-terminal. Even
the GNOME project offers choices.

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Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-18 19:50 +0200
  Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-18 20:10 +0200
    Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-19 00:10 +0200
      Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-19 02:30 +0200
        Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-20 03:20 +0200
        Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 00:10 +0200

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