From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: kerolasa@gmail.com, "Dale R. Worley" <worley@alum.mit.edu>,
"Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>,
mrmazda@earthlink.net, util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:47:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150216094747.GC11948@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150216093533.GJ4075@vapier>
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 04:35:33AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 16 Feb 2015 10:10, Karel Zak wrote:
> > What we want to duplicate? What exactly in lib/colors.c is duplicate?
> > The code evaluates filenames and parses files with "name colorcode".
>
> whether the terminal even supports color in the first place. if i picked a
> terminal that doesn't support color so i didn't have to worry about it, it's a
> bit crazy i also have to go to multiple config files and also tell them i don't
> want color otherwise i get corrupted output.
For now it checks isatty() and nothing else, it would be possible to
check number of supported colors in terminfo too, or is there any
other way?
Anyway, we don't want to create (duplicate) any database, all it
provides are knobs for customization and enable/disable.
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-16 9:48 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 [this message]
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
2015-02-12 14:38 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-12 15:25 ` Edward d'Auvergne
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