From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: bruce.dubbs@gmail.com Message-ID: <54DE3AAE.2010906@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:55:58 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karel Zak , "Dale R. Worley" CC: =?UTF-8?Q?P=c3=a1draig_Brady?= , mrmazda@earthlink.net, util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend References: <54DC88BF.5040702@draigBrady.com> <87h9uqv6lv.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> <20150213092131.GM32318@ws.net.home> In-Reply-To: <20150213092131.GM32318@ws.net.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed List-ID: 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