On 24/03/16 09:31, Xavion wrote:
Dear All,
I'm very sorry that it has taken me so long to come back to this thread. I got bogged down with other things, and there was also the procrastination factor at play.
I have remerged my colourisation patch into the latest (Git) 'pacman' codebase. I will attempt to post it to this thread via "git format-patch" soon. I'm new to that command, so let's hope nothing goes wrong.
Refer to these screenshots <http://imgur.com/a/DL4ky> for a visual on how certain pacman operations will look if my patch is accepted. If so, and when time permits, I can look into the prospect of colourising further pacman functionality.
It is difficult to judge the screenshots without side-by-side current vs patched. But from what I can see, most of the colour used is for the sake of having colour. Colour should be used to highlight the important information. How do you decide the URL is more important than the dependencies for -Si? Why is the number of packages being installed highlighted yellow when that is only used for warnings? I'd like to see individual changes proposed, with justification of how they improve the readability of the pacman output. A