From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 18 20:51: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB3E37B517; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA71186; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:50:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:50:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls In-Reply-To: <20000719044049.A52681@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, j mckitrick wrote: > > Oh, this is just ludicrous. "ls -G" as multimedia? Please get a sense of > > perspective. > > That's my point. No, your point was this: > it's hard to say we are forward looking and have decent multimedia > ability when we can't easily get 'ls' to show color. Anyone who thinks "multimedia ability" is in any way tied to the ability to show a directory listing using terminal colours is either stupid, or grossly ignorant of how computers work. Or perhaps we should add ls -S which plays ANSI music corresponding to the type of file it lists so we can have true "ls multimedia support". Would blinking characters correspond to "animation"? :-) > if i had trouble getting color to work on cons25 or even an xterm, i > wouldn't be especially optimistic about something advanced, like playing > mpegs, or even sound. I spent 2 months getting sound and my zip drive to > work. I only stuck with it because BSD is more reliable. When i finally > solved it, i was almost ready to go back to linux. I was lucky. And so i > am contributing to EasyBSD to try to make it easier for others like me. Well, all I can say is that I think most people don't find it that hard to get sound working. > > > It's time to sell out. Colorls isn't THAT big of a deal if it makes people > > > happy. Adding it will make more people happy than leaving it out will. > > > > "Adding it"? Okay, so you *are* out of touch :-) > > I meant 'fixing it', if that is the right choice of words. ls -G works fine. > To sum it all up, i get frustrated when 'progress' is alluded to as being a > crutch for 'lusers'. Computers are a tool to make life easier. Why the > hell does liking colors (which help the brain organize information better) > warrant being labeled as a luser? This isn't my argument with you..I called you on a dubious attempt to link colours in the output of ls(1) with system multimedia support, where none exists. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message