From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54551 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752153AbbBMJWK (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2015 04:22:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:21:31 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: "Dale R. Worley" Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig?= Brady , mrmazda@earthlink.net, util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend Message-ID: <20150213092131.GM32318@ws.net.home> References: <54DC88BF.5040702@draigBrady.com> <87h9uqv6lv.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <87h9uqv6lv.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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/... :-) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com