Bug#305398: gnome-terminal and ls -color = asumed backgound is black

Eddy Petrisor Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>, 305398-quiet@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:42:41 +0300


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:30:15PM +0200, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> 
>>Package: gnome-terminal
>>Version: 2.8.2-2
>>Severity: minor
>>
>>Hello,
>>I have seen some problems with the default theme and colour set.
>>
>>The last one I've seen is the way colours are displayed when issuing the
>>ls -color command in /dev.
> 
> 
> actually that's not a bug in gnome-terminal, but a design defect in the
> ls program.  It hardcodes a table of escape sequences to match against
> the $TERM variable (rather than using the terminfo information).
> 
Then, I guess, the bug should be reassigned to bash?

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Regards,
EddyP
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