As found in /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/net/links_0.84-2.deb BUG ONE: The colors (which appear with COLORS setting) render the text unreadable: there is no way to read dim white letters on a charcoal-black background, although I use a fairly nice monitor. At the same time, these colors can not be adjusted in the configuration file (at least this is not documented). Worse than that, in the source code to the program, the default foreground and background is not set among other colors in setup.h (I have to admit I could not even find where the default colors for the normal text are set; at least, not in the time I had for this). BUG TWO: links does not honor the .mime-types and .mailcap, requiring to redefine everything in its own configuration file. Worse than that, a reasonable default configuration file is not included in the distribution, but is to be built from pieces posted somewhere on the internet.) My system: $ uname -a Linux Port 2.2.12 #27 Sun May 21 13:51:37 EDT 2000 i586 unknown Regards, Andrew PS. Honestly, both bugs seem to be intentionally made. Has this software been written by someone associated with netscape or microsoft, to shake people's trust in open source? Or are those just Martians, who could easily read dim on charcoal? Why are they so insistent on their extraterrestrial defaults?
White text on black background looks good on Linux console and in OS/2 window. You are probably using font with one-pixel width lines. You can - not use colors - change xterm font (I guess it's xterm) - change color in default.c - wait until I write it (maybe sometimes - I don't use X, so I don't care) It is in default.c, struct rgb default_fg and struct rgb default_bg. I don't use them. I can't write support for something I don't use. Write it and send me the patch. Yes, they are intentianal. I live without X most time and I don't maintain mailcap. Mikulas
White text on black background looks good on Linux console and in OS/2 window. You are probably using font with one-pixel width lines. You can - not use colors - change xterm font (I guess it's xterm) - change color in default.c - wait until I write it (maybe sometimes - I don't use X, so I don't care) It is in default.c, struct rgb default_fg and struct rgb default_bg. I don't use them. I can't write support for something I don't use. Write it and send me the patch. Yes, they are intentianal. I live without X most time and I don't maintain mailcap. Mikulas
Andrew, Please do not submit more than one bug in a mail. This is the standard console setting for the last 10 years of all of my consoles, including, but not limited to linux. This could have been a wishlist, if you would have submitted it separately. This was submitted *twice* in the BTS. Please check the BTS before submitting new bugreports. You're free to write the mailcap patches, uplink author will probably gladly accept it. Thank you, I'll create a richer default config, probably as an example config. I plan to patch hooks in to support external mime-type handling, but no promises. These kind of comments won't help anybody, nor do they make any good. Thank you for your report, Bests, Peter