default LS_COLORS are annoyingly unreadable
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
To reproduce:
1) Open a terminal
2) Cd to a directory where you have a lot of different kind of files
3) type ls
The default colors are terrible. Most of the time you can't read most of the entries in a directory listing. Some file names are shown with electric blue text on a blueish green background.
Note that I am not daltonic.
Default colors don't need to be beautiful but they do have to be reasonably readable
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 10 22:07:38 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
| summary: |
- dafault LS_COLORS are annoyingly unreadable + default LS_COLORS are annoyingly unreadable |
| Thijs van Dijk (ametheus-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | ubuntu → gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Harry Sufehmi (harry-sufehmi) wrote | #2 |
Though there's a fine line between "looks terrible" and "illegible", I would agree that the default terminal profile could do with a readability update.
Especially image files -- shown in purple -- can be very hard do decipher against the semi-transparent purplish black background.