Re: Not sure how to best reply re: dir_colors situation

[Pádraig Brady]

Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Saturday 06 of June 2009 16:30:05 Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Kamil Dudka wrote:
>>> I think we should improve documentation a bit. It is not only about hard
>>> links. Some people may also want to disable file capabilities
>>> highlighting, etc. Pádraig, what do you think?
>> Well as discussed previously I'm not fond of this feature at all:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/threads.html#00287
>> TBH, the number of hardlinks has it's own column that one can quickly scan.
>> The only argument I've seen for changing the color is "it would help".
>> So I'd be happy to turn off this completely, or at least not enable it by
>> default.
> 
> If this is what users want, then fine by me. Let's make the final decision
> if "turn off completely", or "not enable by default". I'll prepare the patch 
> for review.

Thanks Kamil for following this up.

Turn off completely is my vote, as hardlinks have their own column.
I polled my local LUG with a non leading question and
nobody came up with a reason for coloring hardlinks.

Eric voted for "not enable by default".

Jim checked the functionality in originally.

So I guess the middle ground is best of "not enable by default",
though that will require adding documentation for the option.
That's probably best to add in the dir_colors man page which
is part of the linux man pages collection.
Hmm, would this page be better located in coreutils?

cheers,
Pádraig.