Re: [Bashburn-info] Something funky in the config menu

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Wednesday, Sep 24th 2008 at 17:17 -0000, quoth Anders Lind?n:

=>I also notice that when the Swedish descriptions do show up, they use
=>colors as they should. For instance when choosing whether to use
=>normalize or not, yes is colored in green and no in red. In the english
=>descriptions colors are never used. 

Ok. Fixed in 581. The problem was that the lang files were being sucked in 
*before* the colordefs happened.  Therefore the color defs were null at 
the time that the info messages were defined. It should be better now.

What I did *not* see was that it was working for Swedish and not for 
English. What is more likely is that it worked for neither, but that after 
you changed language in the same session, then the messages were recreated 
while the color defs had already been set.

And the moral of the story is that what would have prevented this is for 
package definition to have occurred. Bash doesn't provide for it, but it 
would have been nice to for, for example, inside 
lang/English/configure.lang to say

require color

and inside misc/colors.idx to say 

provides color

Alas :-( 

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