This is an old bug that did not gain substantial momentum after being
marked 'needs-progress' for a considerable amount of time.

The bug is closed as 'dead'.

If someone is actually working(!) on this issue again feel free to
reopen it, so the progress can be monitored within the BTS.

This is an old bug that did not move for a considerable amount of
time. Therefore this issue is marked as 'needs-progress'. We will be
monitoring this issue for the period of a month. If it does not gain
substantial momentum up to that time, the bug will be closed as 'dead'.

* Frank Terbeck <bts@bts.grml.org> [20090407 01:56]:

> Going on...

Just wow :)

> > Some settings need directories to exits, but Mercurial doesn't
> > support to create empty ones[2].

> Neither does git.

ACK

> > Hence someone in charge has to create the following ones within
> > /etc/skel/.newsbeuter

> >   - saved_articles
> >   - podcasts -- though optional, since that setting is commented out

> No. Noone does.
> If I tell a program: "Save foo to bar/baz/", then the program should
> better create that directory for me (it may ask me if I think it's
> okay, if whether I screwed up).

> About the patches:
> I'm as always sceptic about diverting from default colors.
> I don't understand why the default entries in the killfile would make
> sense.

ACK. Though it's fine for me if we provide *useful* templates via
/etc/skel/.newsbeuter which help users in configuring newsbeuter.
Upstream of newsbeuter is a friend of me so I think we could even
get a review of our stuff then. ;)

> As with the other pings: What's the status here?

Pinging Alex. :)

regards,
-mika-

Going on...

> Some settings need directories to exits, but Mercurial doesn't
> support to create empty ones[2].

Neither does git.

> Hence someone in charge has to create the following ones within
> /etc/skel/.newsbeuter
>
>   - saved_articles
>   - podcasts -- though optional, since that setting is commented out

No. Noone does.
If I tell a program: "Save foo to bar/baz/", then the program should
better create that directory for me (it may ask me if I think it's
okay, if whether I screwed up).

About the patches:
I'm as always sceptic about diverting from default colors.
I don't understand why the default entries in the killfile would make
sense.

As with the other pings: What's the status here?

Regards, Frank

As I 'just' realized, grml's main color's yellow not red!!!1! (o;
Hence I changed the background colors for the top and bottom bars of
ncurses to yellow. Which were red in the first place.
But because I personally like the red color scheme better, there are
diffs for both versions attached. Just tell me which one's
preferred. (Note: For comparison, have a look at the screenshots[1].)

I further split the way too large first diff into smaller ones.
Hence it's easier to see what's changed or to just include several
diffs.

Note that the aforementioned (empty) directories[2] still have to be
created manually.

---------------
P.S.: After a decision regarding the color of the bars - hence yellow
or red - was made, other texttools will follow. (e.g. cmus, mutt,
mcabber, etc.) I just don't want to have to provide two different
color scheme with each of them.

                   ---------- Footnotes ----------

[1] http://free-shell.eu/~z3ttacht/grml/colorscheme

[2] http://bts.grml.org/grml/msg1148

Based on the devel ML entry regarding unique color schemes for grml's
most used console tools[1], I provide a config for newsbeuter.

Some settings need directories to exits, but Mercurial doesn't
support to create empty ones[2].
Hence someone in charge has to create the following ones within
/etc/skel/.newsbeuter

  - saved_articles
  - podcasts -- though optional, since that setting is commented out

                   ---------- Footnotes ----------

[1] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/private/grml-devel/2007-December/000768.html

[2] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ#head-487dc57123d9fcdc96b060d00978b5b8aa527769