> Technical correctness should be thrown out in the > name of popularity.
I tend to think that technical correctness is a higher virtue than consensus, popularity, ergonomics, or any other darn thing, and anyone who disagrees is simply pandering. But since the power to enforce that without having people just walk away from it would be an ugly thing, I would remind everyone of /kernel/drv/options.conf. Find the example line preceeded by the comment "For SunOS 4.x defaults that are 8-bit clean for internationalization, use these modes", make a copy of it, and change the :7f: to :8: and plug that in as the value for ttymodes, then reboot. Or as the file describes, use stty to set the modes you like on the raw console or a terminal emulator that does _not_ do key mapping beyond what tty modes do, and then capture the output of stty -g and put that in there. Someone probably ought to find out exactly what the Linux defaults are, and map them to a commented out entry in options.conf, to make life easier for cases where a system is used predominantly by assimilation-resistant refugees from Linux. And I _still_ think a personality option during install would be a big help, but it looks like it ought to not just set a default PATH that chooses between conflicting traditional Solaris vs GNU commands, but also sets up options.conf. Anything else that might become part of a "personality" setting? Keeping in mind that for peaceful coexistence, it would be great to be able to do these things per-account rather than just (as options.conf) per-system. (Yes, one can stick stty commands in various dot files, persuade at least some terminal emulators to use particular tty modes, etc; but it's a fair nuisance for the less than savvy to do so in a way that gives consistent results.) In fact, that got me to wondering if there might not be possible to allow for per-uid tty mode defaults (would need a way to register per-uid preferences, and a way to check for those registered preferences before checking for the ttymodes property); that would be far simpler for the user IMO than the more tedious variety of ways presently possible to consistently approximate the same effect. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
