perf tui: Change default selection background color to yellow
Boris reported that 'perf top' is unusable on his default 'black on
white' terminal, which uses (eye friendly) light-grey as a background
color.
The reason is that the TUI cursor for the current selection line uses
HE_COLORSET_SELECTED, and that has a default background color of
'lightgrey' - which is a common terminal background choice and thus
the colors conflict.
Use yellow as the background color instead: that should be an uncommon
terminal background, yet it's still ergonomic on both black and
white/grey terminals.
[ It would be a better solution to straight out detect color
collisions and resolve them reasonably by converting them to RGB and
calculating color space distances, but I was unable to find
proper documentation for SLtt_get_color_object() to recover the
current color scheme so I gave up ... Yellow works well enough. ]
Reported-and-Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150305103213.GA23046@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
index e9703c0..d372021 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@
.colorset = HE_COLORSET_SELECTED,
.name = "selected",
.fg = "black",
- .bg = "lightgray",
+ .bg = "yellow",
},
{
.colorset = HE_COLORSET_CODE,