On 17.02.2019 05:52, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Feb 17, 12:52am, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> } On 16.02.2019 20:50, John Nemeth wrote:
> } > I'm not a no changenik. However, I think change needs to have
> } > demonstrated value. I do oppose change when it is done for the
> } > sake of change. To
On Feb 17, 12:52am, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
} On 16.02.2019 20:50, John Nemeth wrote:
} > I'm not a no changenik. However, I think change needs to have
} > demonstrated value. I do oppose change when it is done for the
} > sake of change. To me, fluff is not demonstrated value, especially
}
On 17.02.2019 01:51, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
>> ... In this case, the color doesn't take anything away from
>> you. You are no worse off than before, e.g. you have to run additional
>> commands or long format to figure out what are subdirectories etc.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
... In this case, the color doesn't take anything away from
you. You are no worse off than before, e.g. you have to run additional
commands or long format to figure out what are subdirectories etc.
Not entirely true.
For those of use with red-gre
On 16.02.2019 20:50, John Nemeth wrote:
> I'm not a no changenik. However, I think change needs to have
> demonstrated value. I do oppose change when it is done for the
> sake of change. To me, fluff is not demonstrated value, especially
> when you consider our market segmen
That has been
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:58:36PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote:
> On 2/15/19 3:20 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > The kernel is already using green, and recently we added "autoconfiguration
> > error" to highlight errors. Shouldn't we (in addition) make those lines red?
>
>
> Please not. Red
On 16.02.2019 18:30, Robert Elz wrote:
> They haven't yet, but eventually will. Sometime, if this was added,
> someone will say "Why don't we enable colours from ls by default, just
> like all the other OS's do? We have the code already, all we need to do
> is turn it on." That's almost guarra
On Feb 17, 12:30am, Robert Elz wrote:
}
} Date:Sat, 16 Feb 2019 15:02:58 - (UTC)
} From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas)
} Message-ID:
}
} What I do replace from base (every time) is postfix (by sendmail).
} Somehow I doubt that a request to stick sendmail ba
On Feb 16, 3:02pm, Christos Zoulas wrote:
} In article <20190216102435.ga10...@grapefruit.pr0.tips>,
} Timo Buhrmester wrote:
} >> All I know is that some directories look like an "explosion in a
} >> paint factory" or "angry fruit salad".
} >I wonder why the die-hard monochrome users keep argui
On Feb 16, 12:42pm, Timo Buhrmester wrote:
}
} > Prettiness is the last thing that concerns me, cloaking information with
} > gleeful colorized flashlights and blinding me with candy colored dots is.
} Sorry, I wasn't aware how messed up cognition can be. Which color
} is the most blinding to you?
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Hauke Fath
> wrote:
>
> I remember you speaking up against replacing csh(1) with tcsh in base a few
> years ago. How about adding tcsh's complete facility to csh(1)? That is
> probably an order of magnitude in codesize compared to ls(1) vs.
> colo(u)rls, but I
At 15:02 Uhr + 16.02.2019, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>Yes, what I don't understand (because nobody has stated a technical
>reason other than 'fluff'),
... I guess that hurt. It wasn't meant to, sorry, just a tongue-in-cheek
handle to a serious point.
> why we shouldn't we have the feature in bas
At 19:47 Uhr + 15.02.2019, m...@netbsd.org wrote:
>I for one am quite fed up with how I have to replace around 30% of base
>to get a usable setup.
Yes. We've all been there, and I feel your pain.
> my set of substitutions are:
>
>- g95 -> gfortarn, because we don't default to modern fortran.
Date:Sat, 16 Feb 2019 15:02:58 - (UTC)
From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas)
Message-ID:
| Yes, what I don't understand (because nobody has stated a technical
| reason other than 'fluff'), why we shouldn't we have the feature in base
| at all. Nobody pr
> Yes, what I don't understand (because nobody has stated a technical
> reason other than 'fluff'), why we shouldn't we have the feature in base
> at all. Nobody proposed to enable it by default.
Thank you!
I personally think it is unreasonable to oppose adding a
default-disabled feature like thi
On 2019-02-15 21:47, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> Colors nowadays are industry standard and increase readability.
I dislike colored ls with a passion simply because each time I use a
new Linux system, I can't see the very dark blue directory entries on
black background (in particular if there are o
In article <20190216102435.ga10...@grapefruit.pr0.tips>,
Timo Buhrmester wrote:
>> All I know is that some directories look like an "explosion in a
>> paint factory" or "angry fruit salad".
>I wonder why the die-hard monochrome users keep arguing from a
>"but it isn't pretty" point of view. It's
> To me it's the gloriously colorful that keep arguing that other people
> argue "but it isn't pretty".
Care to elaborate?
> Prettiness is the last thing that concerns me, cloaking information with
> gleeful colorized flashlights and blinding me
fstd.l...@gmail.com (Timo Buhrmester) writes:
>colors unconditionally, or by default even. I also have issues with
>the "I can't tell apart colors, so nobody may use colors" mindset.
You may use colors all day long, it's as simple as installing a color-ls
program.
Next time it's not about color
fstd.l...@gmail.com (Timo Buhrmester) writes:
>I wonder why the die-hard monochrome users keep arguing from a
>"but it isn't pretty" point of view. It's not supposed to be pretty,
>it's supposed to augment the information presented.
To me it's the gloriously colorful that keep arguing that other
> All I know is that some directories look like an "explosion in a
> paint factory" or "angry fruit salad".
I wonder why the die-hard monochrome users keep arguing from a
"but it isn't pretty" point of view. It's not supposed to be pretty,
it's supposed to augment the information presented.
> The
On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, m...@netbsd.org wrote:
> sorry, I came here with a bit of an axe to grind. probably weshould not
> make things hard to people who are color blind, when red/green color
> blindness is so common.
I just looked it up, this affects approximately 8% of european descent
males acco
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019, Christian Groessler wrote:
And, yes, in daily live, I can see and distinguish traffic lights. The only
important thing in this regard...
I actually have trouble at nighttime to tell the difference between the
green traffic lights and other "white" lights. I actually used
On 2/16/19 7:14 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
Don't know Debian, but at least Redhat:
[ragge@beta ~]$ ls -l /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1741 30 jun 2016 /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh
Ok. I'm seeing colorls.sh and colorls.csh in /etc/profile.d on a Fedora
27 box.
My point
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