From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: mrmazda@earthlink.net, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:21:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9uqv6lv.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54DC88BF.5040702@draigBrady.com> (P@draigBrady.com)
<P@draigBrady.com> writes:
> I agree completely. color is useful but one has to be very careful
> in how it's used. ls --color for example is too aggressive IMHO,
> and I adjust to highlight rather than color with:
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l
> I've been pusing back upstream against adding new color combinations.
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.
Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 3:21 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 [this message]
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
2015-02-12 14:38 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-12 15:25 ` Edward d'Auvergne
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