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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:56:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150212135649.GD3876@type.bordeaux.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150212132110.GE32318@ws.net.home>

Karel Zak, le Thu 12 Feb 2015 14:21:10 +0100, a écrit :
> For example for fedora I will keep the colors enabled, because it's
> current distribution policy.

But all distributions need to be accessible.  It is a per-user
preference, not a per-task or per-distribution preference.  So upstream
at least needs to provide ways to configure it per user, and downstream
provide a uniform way to configure the various shipped tools.

Samuel

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-12 13:56 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
2015-02-12 13:21 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-12 13:56   ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2015-02-12 14:38     ` Karel Zak
2015-02-12 15:25     ` Edward d'Auvergne

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