[asterisk-users] ANSI terminal colors

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:23:57PM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 13:59:37 Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> > Jared Smith schrieb:
> > > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:35 +0200, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> > >> Whenever something spits out lines with a different background
> > >> color (of a varying runlength!) my eyes start to hurt.
> > >
> > > You can turn of the ANSI color support completely by adding
> > > "nocolor=yes" to the [options] section of asterisk.conf and then
> > > restarting Asterisk.
> >
> > Sure. But I want colored output on my default background color.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > ls with dircolors works perfectly. So I was curious if there
> > is a reason for Asterisk to behave differently (forcing the
> > background color to black).
> 
> Because nobody else ever asked, perhaps?

No, I would suspect that it's because there's probably a subconscious
perception that colorcoded text "works better" on black than white, and
indeed, it does: you often have to fiddle the colors chosen to get it
to be readable against black: the default red has too little luminance
to stand out from black, for instance.

It's the same problem as backlit keyboards with silver coatings, or the
display on a Palm IIIe: in certain lighting conditions, you simply can't
read it at all.

Cheers,
-- jra
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