Re: sysinstall colours

jhell schrieb am 2009-10-09:

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:52 +0200, alexbestms@ wrote:
hi there,

sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries
to avoid
dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this
beautiful
screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer:

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dre
sden_7_lrg

i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours
compared to
sysinstall.

is there any way the sysinstall colours could be adjusted (without
a lot of
work) to also feature such beautiful colours? i had a quick look at
the
sysinstall, libdialog and ncurses sources and to me it seems that
to change
sysinstall's colours the hardcoded values of

COLOR_BLACK
COLOR_RED
COLOR_GREEN
COLOR_YELLOW
COLOR_BLUE
COLOR_MAGENTA
COLOR_CYAN
COLOR_WHITE

have to be changed in contrib/ncurses/ncurses/base/lib_color.c or
is there an
easier way? because this would of course affect all apps that are
linked to
ncurses.

cheers.
alex

sysinstall looks like this too when it is ran in a gnome terminal or
some other terminal that is ran in a X environment.

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i'm running sysinstall in xterm with $TERM set to xterm-color and the colors
don't seem any different to me. but you have a point there, because i could
edit ~/.Xdefaults and adjust some xterm resources to change the standard
colours.

alex
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