On 11/09/2016 08:06 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 10:04 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: >> Speaking in "workstation" context, people might realize it is possible >> to change, but they don't care. My computer is not my pet, I don't need >> to name it, I couldn't care less. Honestly, it would be better if the >> hostname was not shown in my terminal by default. > > The hostname is shown, historically, to allow you to understand on which > machine you are running a command. It is oriented toward a sysadmin > world, where it is common to log into many machines via telnet/rsh/ssh > to perform various tasks. > > If we can ship default configurations that show the hostname in PS1 only > for shells running on a remotely initiated connection and leave the > prompt to something very short then I think that would work fine. >
Historical reasons aside, part of this discussion was launched because having something visible in the terminal that reminded a user that they are on Fedora is of interest from a branding perspective. Since we already have the hostname displayed there and we've established that defaulting to a static "localhost" name is less than ideal, it seemed like an easy place to score double points: fix the hostname problem by selecting a default that would also help with branding. Now, regarding Simo's point: I don't know if it's necessarily something we want to do by default, but it's definitely possible to accomplish with Powerline[1] (I know this because that's exactly how I have my system set up today). If that's something we would legitimately like to add to Workstation by default, please start a new thread on desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org where it can be discussed and designed. [1] https://fedoramagazine.org/add-power-terminal-powerline/
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