VT Foofiness

[Sevendogsbsd]

Funny, I got pushback on Twitter when I responded to someone's desire to make vt KDE terminal friendly/compatible with colored text and emoji support. The pushback was in the form of "we need to embrace freedom of choice", which is good, but foofy boot up sequence is not something I consider even remotely important to the end goals of FreeBSD. My opinion though...I never much was one for eye-candy.

 

[mickey]

Emoji support in console vt driver? What purpose could that possibly serve? Display a thumbs-up emoji when the kernel successfully loaded a device driver?
Uh, then I also want vt to have support for Tektronix 4010

 

[Sevendogsbsd]

My thoughts exactly!

 

[Deleted member 30996]

The pushback was in the form of "we need to embrace freedom of choice", which is good, but foofy boot up sequence is not something I consider even remotely important to the end goals of FreeBSD.

They have the choice to continue using something else as an OS as I doubt it was a FreeBSD usr proselytizing emojis in a terminal.

We've got ASCII.

 

[mickey]

We've got ASCII.

Exactly! Who needs emojis anyways?

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