On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 07:57:45AM +1000, Xavion wrote:
Hi Allan,
Tell me, did you ever actually use "pacman-color" before it was killed? If so, it should be pretty obvious what's currently missing from "pacman". I attached said "steaming pile of hackery" to give you the complete picture.
For starters, here are four screenshots <http://imgur.com/a/DL4ky>comparing "pacman" to "pacman-color". As you can see, the colourisation of the latter is far superior to that of the former. Accordingly, human brains can extract information faster from the latter's output.
This all depends on what you think is superior. You could probably get scientific studies that say that one is better than the other, but it's a matter of opinion. If you want, you can colorize those other strings, if I'm not mistaken, it wouldn't take too much to do that even. I'd suggest submitting some patches that improve the color output rather than just complaining. Thanks, -- William Giokas | KaiSforza GnuPG Key: 0x73CD09CF Fingerprint: F73F 50EF BBE2 9846 8306 E6B8 6902 06D8 73CD 09CF