[gentoo-dev] Re: Themes

[Bryce Porter <bporter@advancenet.net>]

I have been working on an awesome bash prompt theming mechanism. I could
easily make a format to make color prompts using strings like $red for
red text, etc. And then i could even write a few sample bash prompt
themes. I have all the ANSI colors defined already, and assigned to thier
own unique variable.
Sounds like a cool idea to me.

Bryce

> Hmmm... I'm just thinking aloud here; I'm not even sure if it's a useful
> idea, nor am I sure
> that I can explain it satisfactorialy :/
> Ok, from the users perspective, it would look like this: A default
> configuration skeleton would
> be installed (a default ~/.bashrc etc), as it is currently. The user
> would then be able to apply, um, "themes" to their configuration - for 
> example I like the highlight colour to be red, so I would find myself
> going through ~/.pinerc, ~/.lynxrc etc making them all look the same...
> the same applies to things like prompts, shells, editor of choice, my
> favorite mail program, /etc/hosts etc etc.