Bug 25683

Summary:	Bold fonts are difficult to read.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ralph Jones <ralph.jones>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc4
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ralph Jones 2003-07-31 23:20:46 UTC

The default for the bash prompt and for ls --show-colors is to use bold fonts. 
This can be difficult to see, especially for a user with glasses.

This was agreed by more than one user in the forum thread:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=22716

I would like to suggest that the following default settings are changed:

In /etc/profile,

replace
export PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'
with
export PS1='\[\033[00;31m\]\h \[\033[00;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'

In /etc/DIR_COLORS, change all instances of "01;xy" to "00;xy".

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-08-01 06:11:11 UTC

a better change might be to make it optional via 'BOLD_COLORS'

personally, i like em ;)

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-11 05:14:26 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

> In /etc/DIR_COLORS, change all instances of "01;xy" to "00;xy".

I can't see any "01;xy" in /etc/DIR_COLORS and don't see bold fonts in ls
--color, closing a really stale bug.