From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, "Dale R. Worley" <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>,
mrmazda@earthlink.net, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:55:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54DE3AAE.2010906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150213092131.GM32318@ws.net.home>
Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:21:48PM -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote:
>> I don't particularly like colorization. But technically, it seems to me
>> that what is needed is a systematic way for the user to indicate his
>> colorization preferences to *all* utilities. And a corresponding way
>> for the system to provide defaults for those user preferences.
>>
>>
>> Only when there is a systematic framework for colorization will all the
>> programs allow colorizing to be configured.
>
> It would be possible to create a shared library from our lib/colors.c
> to support terminal-colors.d/... :-)
Why not use the LS_COLORS environment variable used by coreutils' dircolors?
Does util-linux need to create something different?
-- Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-12 9:45 tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend Felix Miata
2015-02-12 11:04 ` Pádraig Brady
2015-02-13 3:21 ` Dale R. Worley
2015-02-13 9:21 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-13 10:33 ` Sami Kerola
2015-02-13 11:25 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-15 11:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-02-16 9:10 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-16 9:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-02-16 9:47 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-16 10:32 ` Samuel Thibault
2015-02-16 13:49 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-27 13:48 ` Karel Zak
2015-03-01 13:32 ` Pádraig Brady
2015-03-01 15:14 ` Peter Cordes
2015-03-02 8:59 ` Karel Zak
2015-03-02 9:31 ` Samuel Thibault
2015-03-02 11:03 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-15 17:38 ` Dale R. Worley
2015-02-16 9:18 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-13 17:55 ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2015-02-12 13:21 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-12 13:56 ` Samuel Thibault
2015-02-12 14:38 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-12 15:25 ` Edward d'Auvergne
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