Bug 156025

Summary:	highlighting in red reduces legibility
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	bkorb
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.6.6
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description bkorb 2008-01-17 19:38:40 UTC

Version:           1.6.6 (using KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          N/A N/A
OS:                Linux

I also have a right hand scroll bar that gets smeared with
red from highlighting the right border with red.  It both
looks ugly and requires a larger font size in order to be
able to read through the smearing.  (It's a new, expensive
monitor that otherwise looks crisp and clear, so I do think
it is due to my eyes not liking red next to black on a white
background.)  So, I wanted to turn off the fancy stuff and
stick with black on white.  That does not seem to be allowed.
If you are going to add new default behavior, please also
allow someone who does not like it to easily determine how
to disable it.  Thank you.

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2008-01-17 20:10:30 UTC

> That does not seem to be allowed.
> If you are going to add new default behavior, please also
> allow someone who does not like it to easily determine how
> to disable it.

Can you attach a screenshot please?  I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "highlighting the right border with red", but it isn't an intended feature.

Comment 2 bkorb 2008-01-17 20:28:35 UTC

On 17 Jan 2008 19:10:30 -0000, Robert Knight
>
> ------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-01-17 20:10 -------
> Can you attach a screenshot please?  I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "highlighting the right border with red", but it isn't an intended feature.
>


Ever since "xv" disappeared from the Linux distros, I've not known
how to do a "screenshot".  I can describe the algorithm:  The first
non-blank after white space and every "/" character is red, plus the
right hand margin is also reddened if it is not immediately preceded
by non-white space.  That reddening extends for about half the width
of the scroll bar width.  I do not think this is bash because I get the
same effect with vim (with coloring turned off).  This is new behavior
with my new installation of SuSE 10.3.  Thank you.

Comment 3 bkorb 2008-01-17 20:32:23 UTC

Never mind.  #-(  I did more testing and it _is_ a monitor failure issue.
Please close and pretend I never started this.  :)  Thanks.

On Jan 17, 2008 11:27 AM, Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2008 19:10:30 -0000, Robert Knight
> >
> > ------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-01-17 20:10 -------
> > Can you attach a screenshot please?  I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "highlighting the right border with red", but it isn't an intended feature.
> >
>
> Ever since "xv" disappeared from the Linux distros, I've not known
> how to do a "screenshot".  I can describe the algorithm:  The first
> non-blank after white space and every "/" character is red, plus the
> right hand margin is also reddened if it is not immediately preceded
> by non-white space.  That reddening extends for about half the width
> of the scroll bar width.  I do not think this is bash because I get the
> same effect with vim (with coloring turned off).  This is new behavior
> with my new installation of SuSE 10.3.  Thank you.
>

Comment 4 Robert Knight 2008-01-17 21:33:13 UTC

> Ever since "xv" disappeared from the Linux distros, I've not known
> how to do a "screenshot". 

I would recommend ksnapshot.

Comment 5 FiNeX 2008-01-17 21:34:12 UTC

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