RFC: root/non-root bash prompts different colours?

[Rahul Sundaram]

--- Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Ralf
> Ertzinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:42:03PM -0500, Alan Cox
> wrote:
> > > Not all terminal devices support blink 8)
> > How about making it beep every second?
> 
> Deaf users ?
> 
> More seriously there is a need to be careful with
> this. 

very true Alan

Nowdays many people 
> remember blind users but there are still programs
> whose alerts can only be
> set to be audio, an a lot of games where audio clues
> are valuable but provide
> no visual equivalent.
> 
> Alan


Maybe we need a comprehensive accessibility framework
not just for Gnome but in bash too?

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Regards
Rahul Sundaram


		
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