Re: tty[1-6]: colors a negative accessibility/usability trend

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On 13 February 2015 at 09:21, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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/... :-)

Or add the needed to ncurses. Isn't that better than adding a new
library?

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