From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:45367 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755282AbbBLN4v (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:56:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:56:49 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: Karel Zak Cc: Felix Miata , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend Message-ID: <20150212135649.GD3876@type.bordeaux.inria.fr> References: <54DC762E.2090404@earthlink.net> <20150212132110.GE32318@ws.net.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <20150212132110.GE32318@ws.net.home> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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