blue on orange is very hard to read in aptitude

[Tomas Pospisek]

Binary package hint: aptitude

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.
aptitude:
  Installed: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What you expected to happen
4) What happened instead

See attached screenshot. The text on the progress bar is extremely hard to read. Those colours are probably complementary colours that's why the text is very hard to read. I guess this bug is related to #37603.

[Tomas Pospisek (tpo-deb)]

Same bug as upstream's http://bugs.debian.org/418361

[Tomas Pospisek (tpo-deb)]

> Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2014-02-08
> Changed in aptitude:
> status: New → Incomplete

Robots without brains -> contraproductive, automatically wasting peoples' time

I'm changing status back now

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

On 23 February 2014 14:39, Tomas Pospisek <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2014-02-08
>> Changed in aptitude:
>> status: New → Incomplete
>
> Robots without brains -> contraproductive, automatically wasting
> peoples' time
>
> I'm changing status back now
>

LP status change reflects an equivalent change on bugs.d.o.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

The according bug in Debian (https://bugs.debian.org/418361) has been closed in Debian as "not actionable". Please see the discussion there for details.

Besides: In my terminal (uxterm), these colors are readable without issues while I agree that the colors in the screenshots are suboptimal. But the exact color of an ANSI color depends a lot on the terminal. I suspect the screenshots is from a libvte-based terminal.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

JFTR: I just checked, for me the background color in this widget is a light yellow, not an orange. Seems to make a difference wrt. to readability.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report did not expire due to upstream task
No further comment to #6 after over seven years
Will close as 'Opinion' as colours can be changed in
terminal settings to suit a user's preference.