Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/wscons
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/24/2005 13:17:52
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> writes:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:13:00AM +0200, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
>> wouldn't WSCOL_BRIGHTWHITE do better?  at least that seems to be how it
>> is usually called.
>
> No, since WSCOL_WHITE is not white at all, and this is the one and only real
> white. WSCOL_BLACK is black, so no point in creating a WSCOL_REALBLACK. I'm
> all for moving WSCOL_WHITE to WSCOL_GREY, but I don't want to deal with the
> fallout ;-)

How much fallout could there be? No one is going to have a program
fail to work because of it -- it will just look a bit odd. I'd just do
it as _GREY and make white _WHITE.

> There is no such thing as a bright black or a dim white.

Perry