On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:33:23AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> 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?
you want to link programs like dmesg, gcc or ls with ncurses monster?
The another story is that ncurses provides completely abstract layer
for colors and I didn't found a way how to use it together with color
escape sequences. This is reason why for example cfdisk supports only
enable/disable terminal-colors.d feature, but no schemes to specify
colors.
Karel
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