[Pkg-mc-devel] MC 4.8.1-3

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:21:53PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
>   * new beautiful 256 colour skins "modarin-1.1" by Oliver Lange

Hmmm, I tested this but I'm not that impressed.  Having the option to
use 256 instead of 16 colors is OK, but loosing my loved blue background
with no purpose is bad.  Moreover if I use any of these skins the
vertical lines liniting the panels are just missing.  I do not even need
a screenshot to explain the problem - a simple cut-n-paste is enough:

Using: mc -u --skin modarin256:

║/.audacity-data              │   4096│21. Feb 15:17║║/.audacity-data              │   4096│21. Feb 15:17║


Using: mc -u

│/.audacity-data              │   4096│21. Feb 15:17││/.audacity-data              │   4096│21. Feb 15:17│

See the difference very left and very right as well as in the center?

Diving deeper into this I tried the "official" skins inside mc.

Those work fine regarding the lines: dark, darkfar, default, mc46,
nicedark, sand256

Those show the same problem: double-lines, featured, gotar, xoria256

BTW, nicedark chooses black on black font for links to hidden files.
Might be worth a bug report but I mind to less for this skin stuff.


>   * d-control: no longer suggest transitional 'xpdf-reader'

Sounds reasonable

>   * d-rules: build with all hardening

Sounds reasonable as well.

> No bugfixes this time - after long review of upstream bug tracker I closed yet 
> another bug but for the rest of them more time will be required.
> 
> If you think those changes are qualify for release I will be happy if you 
> could consider uploading it.

In short 2.+3. are fine, but 1. seems somehow unfinished but harmless (I
would not have noticed it).

> To me new colour themes is a big deal - for years I was waiting to have nice 
> comfortable MC skins and this is just what I needed. I hope many people would 
> like them too.

Would you consider fixing the issue with the missing '│'.  It is no
issue which would finally stop me from uploading - just want to make you
aware of this.  The fact that the official skin "double-lines" might
give a hint that this is not actually an issue of the skins but perhaps
a missing font package?  If this is the case I'd vote for a "Suggests"
and adding a hint in the documentation what package is needed.  I would
be not very happy about a "Recommends" which would bloat my server
machines with unneeded stuff because I think I'll stick to default skin
anyway.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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