tags 672929 +wontfix
thanks
Hi Peter,
First, thanks for your bugreport: I was somehow expecting a bug like yours.
Le lundi, 14 mai 2012 21.23:51, vous avez écrit :
> The new fancy output is neat and all, but it looks backwards, because
> it's
>
> [ ok ] Doing something
>
> where the "ok" comes after the doing.
The main reason for this decision is the size of the modern console screens:
having the status blocks on the right makes them hard to connect back to their
source in the rare occasions when you can still see them; given that X starts
earlier and earlier these days and that ttys wipe the first screen at the end
of the boot...
> The normal progression should go from left to right, and so the "ok" should
> be on the right side.
I understand that reasoning.
> This has also been long established practice in other distributions
> (last time I checked), so I don't see why Debian needs to do this
> differently. Please rethink this.
This is overridable by both admins and derivative distributions through an
/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh file. The next src:lsb release will allow packages
and admins to drop snippets sourced by /lib/lsb/init-functions in
/lib/lsb/init-functions.d/ (see 0202e4d6 commit from packaging repository); so
this could definitely be overriden by a `lsb-info-blocks-right` package (which
could even be a binary package built from src:lsb ; patches welcome).
(We could even imagine two lsb-info-blocks-{left,right} packages which would
break eachother and be recommends of lsb-base; IMHO silly but I'm open to be
convinced.)
I think choosing left or right info blocks positioning is a rather well
balanced choice and I picked one of them. Given that either choice will make
half users happy and the other half sad, I am not willing to play info blocks
Pong: hereby tagging +wontfix.
Feel free to either provide patches for a new lsb-info-blocks-right package
(better name welcome too), edit /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh on systems where it
matters or widen the discussion to -devel or -ctte.
(I shall also note that I asked for opinions on -devel and only got positive
feedback on this idea.)
Best regards,
OdyX
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