[bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2] bitbake: Colorize knotty interactive console output

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 08:45 -0600, Seth Bollinger wrote:
> I'm not sure how best to resolve this.  Would you like me to add some
> code to try and detect background color?  This seems like it might be
> more complex than it's worth...
>
> Or would it be better to have a selectable light background color
> set?  If you think light background is more common (I dislike staring
> at large blocks of white :)) it could default to the light color set.

I have not looked into this and am not an expert on terminals and colour
control of them. I don't know how we can solve this but the current
situation where it prints white on white on my terminal is clearly
unacceptable. This has to be a problem others have run into and solved
before though...

Cheers,

Richard