RFE - Bring more color to the console

markg85 · 2010-02-14 16:45:04

Hi,

first posting it here so people can discuss it.

What i would like to propose is bringing a little more color in the default archlinux console:
* [user@host ~] $ colors
* grep --color=auto colors

And to give an idea how that looks:
Grep colors

Console colors

And this is how i did that (in .bashrc):

# Check for an interactive session
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
PS1='\033[01m[\033[0m \u\033[01;37m @ \033[0m\h \033[36m\W \033[01;37m]\033[0;32m \$\033[0m '

Now i would propose that this gets included in archlinux itself so every new arch user can enjoy these fancy colors ^_^
This can probably done by editing the global bashrc or the user .bashrc but i leave that up to the people that know what's best.

Let me know what you think of this idea.

Btw. for the grep color. That adjustment is already in bashrc for ls.. but not for grep, so it makes sense to me to include grep..

Regards,
Mark

Last edited by markg85 (2010-02-14 16:47:19)

markg85 · 2010-02-20 13:32:14

No suggestions, comments or critics? Then i'm gonna post the same message to the "bug" reporting tool

edit:
added in the bug reporting tool: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18409
I hope this gets accepted

Last edited by markg85 (2010-02-20 13:40:10)

JohannesSM64 · 2010-02-20 13:36:57

Don't... this is not a bug...

markg85 · 2010-02-20 13:40:46

JohannesSM64 wrote:

Don't... this is not a bug...

It's a "feature request" which, to my knowledge, also belong in there.

tomk · 2010-02-20 14:19:11

Suggestion/comment: post this in the wiki somewhere, and let users decide for themselves if they want it or not.

Colour choices are a very individual thing, after all.

hw-tph · 2010-02-20 14:29:09

While I can see that it is exciting for you to discover these possibilities, I firmly recommend not enabling them by default.

1. It is not the Arch way:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way wrote:

The Arch Linux system places precedence upon elegance of design as well as clean, simple code, rather than unnecessary patching, automation, eye candy or "newbie-friendliness"

2. It is easy enough for anyone to do. I assume most Arch users already do similar configuration and/or customization to their console behaviour. See #1.

3. It can break functionality for people that use retarded terminals.

4. It is a matter of taste. A lot of people prefer gray on black terminals, and that's the traditional style too. If the user wants it different, (s)he may change it according to her wishes (see #1).

Last edited by hw-tph (2010-02-20 14:31:07)

Heller_Barde · 2010-02-20 14:39:30

markg85 wrote:

JohannesSM64 wrote:
Don't... this is not a bug...
It's a "feature request" which, to my knowledge, also belong in there.

yes, but don't you think that it's a little silly to assume that everyone wants colors in their bash. especially when it's such an easy thing to configure for yourself.

arch is all about freedom to have your system like you want it. and it's also about no-nonsense defaults. start with the bare minimum and build your configuration up from that.

EDIT: and welcome to the wonderful world that is arch linux! enjoy your stay

cheers
Barde

Last edited by Heller_Barde (2010-02-20 14:40:45)

Crooksey · 2010-02-25 12:49:54

Without being rude I am assuming most arch linux users know there way around a .bashrc file anyway

markg85 · 2010-02-27 20:09:22

Hmm.. after reading the comments, specially the one from Heller_Barde i even might disagree with my initial post. What Heller_Barde said is exactly the reason i like this distribution and adding this kind of "eye candy" is nice but indeed not the arch way.

Closure for the "feature request" requested.

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