On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 06:55:45PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>I changed the selected text colour in sam to a darker grey-green,
>by editing the source. In my defence the default colour is almost
>invisible on my laptops LCD display.

I don't see why you'd need a defense. If the color scheme is 
making it harder to do your work, then I don't see how you could 
be denounced for changing it. I, personally, have a hard time 
distinguishing the background color of the selected text in 
acme, possibly because I'm color blind. I sometimes have to get 
close to the screen and squint when matching parens and braces. 
I should change it.

But that's really pretty minor. When I sit in front of a foreign 
linux box and type ls, I usually get a listing in harsh colors, 
some of which I need to get closer to the screen and squint just 
to make out words. It seems that whenever I see a screenshot of 
a curses app, there are bright and harsh colors, usually blues 
and reds, and I'm astounded that people can tolerate looking at 
them for hours.

That's my only motivation for changing X resources. Plan 9's 
color scheme, on the other hand, is generally agreeable, and 
I've never really felt much desire to meddle with it.

-- 
Kris Maglione

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires
a computer.