Bug#672929: fancy output result should be on the right

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>]

Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org> writes:

> Package: lsb-base
> Version: 4.1+Debian2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> 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 normal progression should
> go from left to right, and so the "ok" should be on the right side.
> 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.

If changing it, please make it configurable. I *hate* it on the far
right. On a wide screen, the status and the rest of the text are far
apart, which makes reading it harder. Having the status on the left,
closer to the message itself is much easier to read at a glance, in my
opinion.

That the rest of the world does it wrong is no reason for us to follow,
when it can be done right >;)

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