<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - RFE: systemctl: optionally turn off colors" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90464#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - RFE: systemctl: optionally turn off colors" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90464">bug 90464</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" title="Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"> Lennart Poettering</a> <pre>(In reply to Jari Aalto from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=90464#c2">comment #2</a>) > Your phone? Howabout others phones, models, what type or resolution of > display....? Too many variables to generalize "it works for me". I am pretty sure that you have to look hard to find a terminal emulator these days that does not support color. I am much more interested in providing good user experience for most people, and a way to configure things correctly for all others, than providing a bad experience for all. > Most of the program have colors off and provide separate option to turn it > on. Usually if you want a feature to be active, then there is an option to > enable it; in this case the --color option would be logical choice. Well, I disagree. And given that this so far didn't come up precisely frequently I am pretty sure that this all is an exotic issue. > Having to type exotic "TERM=dumb <command>" is contrary to every sensible > way to deal with commands. Well, TERM is the unix way to tell programs what your terminal can do and cannot do. you can set it in your .bashrc or similar, there's really no need to set it invidually for each invocation... > > Please note that "colors" are sensitive to > > - Type of display (depends largely on monitor etc). > - BG/FG on black/white, white/on black settings etc. Does > the colors burn into your eyes? black background probes to be hard on > various colors. > - Doesn't take into account visually impaired people Oh god. With an opt-out switch systemctl is actually very much in line which behaviour of the popular desktops like GNOME or KDE: they use colors by default, and if you don't want this, you can enable high contrast themes and they are. Again, I am open to making this opt-out by checking $TERM. But the default really should be color-ful.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>