cmake colors

[Paulo Jorge Guedes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Faure [mailto:faure at kde.org]
> Sent: quarta-feira, 19 de Abril de 2006 10:56
> To: kde-buildsystem at kde.org
> Subject: cmake colors
> 
> I updated cmake from CVS to test the upcoming release; the first
> difference I saw
> was the colors. Nice feature, but I think the actual colors could be
> improved:
> light green and yellow are unreadable on a white background.
> 
> "Building CXX object" is very-light green; with unsermake it was a
darker
> green, which was
> readable on white background. Looking into the code... hmm, strange;
it's
> the escape code
> for "bold" which makes the green lighter (and not more bold at all).
Hmm,
> that's in konsole;
> in xterm it does both (makes it lighter and more bold). Still not very
> readable there though.
> 
> "Linking" is yellow in both cmake and unsermake, and unreadable in
both,
> but well,
> with unsermake only the word "linking" was in yellow, not the actual
> target being
> linked, so the target remained readable.
> 
> This sounds like a solution then: since the appeareance (and
readability)
> isn't exactly
> the same depending on the terminal, better use colors only for the
> standard part of
> the line but not for the actual target name. What do you think? 

IMHO, it would feel much better even in the case where the color is well
chosen.

Paulo