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This looks really, REALLY cool. But as someone who lives in the terminal, it's not something I would use at all. To me, the fancy fontawesome glyphs PLUS the c
by alekratz 9y ago
This looks really, REALLY cool.
But as someone who lives in the terminal, it's not something I would use at all. To me, the fancy fontawesome glyphs PLUS the colors are information overload [1]. It really feels like overkill. I'm not trying to discourage anyone (including the author) from writing these things, and clearly the author is a very good programmer.
If it was an exercise in making something beautiful in the terminal, then the author succeeded in this endeavor. Making a good looking, consistent terminal UI is ridiculously difficult, and each column is pretty and formatted. This program feels like it has had a lot of TLC. Honestly, I hope the author continues to make cool programs in the terminal; they clearly have a knack for it :)
As a minor aside, maybe consider changing the executable name from `lc` to something else; it conflicts with the `lc` executable for Mono (at least on Arch[2], and Ubuntu[3]). But that's just a minor nitpick.
[1] this is my opinion, I want to make this as clear as possible
[2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/mono/files/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/mono/files/
[3] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/lc.1.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/lc.1.html
- athityakumar 9y agoAcknowledged. The executable has been renamed to `colorls`, which can optionally be aliased in the shell configuration file. :-)
- ams6110 9y agocolorls is already in use, at least on OpenBSD it's a package that provides colorized output for ls (though not to the extent of this effort).
- velobro 9y agoThis is perfect for someone like my who's entire terminal existence is comprise of avoiding user the Finder as much as humanly possible.