Hideous Colors in Git Bash Shell
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So far many of the products are not worth upgrading. Using office from 2 decades ago is not much different except the stupid ribbon made it impossible to get to features, a big down vote, and used a lot more real estate. Not sure I really thought that Windows 7 had to be replaced by windows 10
It didn't, apart from keeping the revenue stream going.
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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The bluescreen isn't blue without a reason: You will find in a lot of books on graphic design that white on blue is one of the most readable color combinations. Black on yellow is another combination at the top of the list. I don't remember which of the two has the top score; it is a very close race. So it should come as no big surprise that traffic signs very often are black on yellow or white on blue. Pink on black may catch your attention more easily, but if the text content is the essential thing, then green on black is far better, much more readable. When I was still a student, I did all my programming green-on-black - we had no alternative (except for the card readers that were still available). A couple years later, black-on-white screens were introduced, but made no great success: Green-on-black, 25 lines of 80 chars, was the preferred choice until the arrival of VGA (and even a few years into the VGA era). In my first job, when PCs had just been introduced, one of the old guys pointed to the Tandberg 2215 terminals: "Take a good look at these! You won't see anything that can match them, ergonomically, for the next ten years, at least." --- It turned out that he was right. Screens got more functions, more colors, more resolution, but it took more than ten years before we got the same readability, and even today, screens have higher functionality, but are no better ergonomically. (That is of course strongly affected by how we choose to use these screens - today, poor ergonomics are essentially caused by poor choices, not by screen technology.)
I love the blue screen. Illegible red text on that blue drives me up the wall. Nobody that coded that colour combo ever used it themselves, on Windows at least. It's not just Git Bash - the Posh Git extension that makes PowerShell a Git console has exactly the same horrific colour scheme.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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This picture is a screen shot of the default Git Bash console on my Windows 10 desktop. Does anybody, even on the Git maintainers team, honestly expect people to like these colors? What were they thinking when they picked them? Please tell me they were on drugs, and can't be held responsible! :sigh:
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
I've found that the best color scheme is subjective at best. I recall one custom software project where I did everything the client asked for and he said, I don't know it just doesn't look right to me. He was an immigranr running his own business. I went to the library and looked up the country he was from and adjusted the color scheme to match the colors on their flag. He loved it and immediately went to get everyone around the office so he could braag on his new software and he wrote a check for me immediately, and the bank recognized and paid the check, too.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Reminds me of CGA.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
DBase IV
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH