Re: Improve dircolors accessibility and readability

[Pádraig Brady]

On 28/01/2024 14:26, Fabio Sirna wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to suggest a small change that can improve dircolors default
> accessibility.
>
> The current default (view default screenshot) is:
>
> OTHER_WRITABLE 34;42 # dir that is other-writable (o+w) and not sticky
>
> that is not easy to read.
>
> I'm using
>
> OTHER_WRITABLE 30;42 # dir that is other-writable (o+w) and not sticky
>
> to improve the readability of this kind of directories.
>
> I'm wondering if this can become a new default.

I agree that this is a bit hard to read.
Actually in general I disagree with using colors at all for mode bits like this,
as it's confusing as to what color combination means what.
Instead I prefer to disable confusing colors and highlight
the non standard mode bits directly, which I do with a wrapper script:

  https://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l

Given that no particular color combination is significantly better here,
I would err on the side of keeping colors as is for some familiarity at least.

thanks,
Pádraig