Re: MXE-build: terminal colors now white on white

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 04/13/2013 07:27 AM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>> John W. Eaton wrote
>>> On 04/12/2013 05:56 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>>>> After building this morning's tip (AFAICS changeset 16499:facf00ce97d3,
>>>> sorry
>>>> I'm on Windows now and not in Linux where I could check), I get white
>>>> on
>>>> white in the terminal for an MXE-build running in WinXP.
>>>>
>>>> Could this be related to changeset 16474:720fd1ca04ec ?
>>>
>>> Could you try
>>>
>>>     exit Octave
>>>     delete your ~/.config/octave/qt-settings file
>>>     retart Octave
>>>
>>> Does that work?  If not, then I'm not sure where the problem is.  It's
>>> working for me.
>>
>> Good suggestion... but alas, it didn't work.
>>
>> I've attached a screen shot of the Octave GUI window. I've typed in "help
>> strread" and as you can see the pager gives some dark grey on light grey
>> output.
> 
> Sorry, I remembered fixing this problem and testing it but apparently
> my fix did not get transferred to the source tree that I push to
> savannah.
> 
> I checked in the following changeset:
> 
>    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/44f3a9f6e791

Thanks very much, works OK now.

IMO those colors had better be defined in the qt-settings file rather than
hard-coded in the source.
That could even be done without, or before, a pop-up menu or settings widget
has been implemented where these colors can be user-adapted.
When I have more time tonight I'll enter it as a  feature request.

Philip




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