Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend

[Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 04:45:18AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> With util-linux >= 2.25 we can turn colors off via
> 
> 	# touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable [3]
> 
> for some commands, but far too few. It should apply to all, including many
> outside the purview of util-linux, and more importantly, do so by default.

This is never ending story and there is no setting which works for
everyone. All I want to provide tools to make it possible to support
various use-cases. It's downstream (distors) job to provide knobs to
switch between the use-cases (profiles).

For example I can imagine packages 
   fedora-terminal-colors-{high-contrast,disable,...}.rpm
to setup coreutils, util-linux, gcc, ... whatever.

> It should be up to those who wish a legibility reduction to discover how to
> and apply the reduction, not the other way around as it is now. It is much
> more difficult for those who cannot handle low contrast to improve it than
> for those who find it too high to reduce it, a variation on the chicken/egg
> paradigm.

We can also add --{disable,enable}-colors-by-default to move the
decision to downstream and use default according the current
terminal-colors.d setting. Your default will be disable, my enabled.

For example for fedora I will keep the colors enabled, because it's
current distribution policy.

    Karel

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