From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:12:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: update TODO
X-Git-Tag: v258-rc1~1052
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc78fc4de33a963daec685f3146ce65426b5b371;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

update TODO
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 9f270ca30e0..2ba93bb0418 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -182,8 +182,16 @@ Features:
 * gpt-auto-root doesn't take image policy into account.
 
 * maybe define a /etc/machine-info field for the ANSI color to associate with a
-  hostname. Then use it for the shell prompt to highlight the hostname. Maybe
-  even hash it from the hostname as a fallback, in a reasonable way.
+  hostname. Then use it for the shell prompt to highlight the hostname. If no
+  color is explicitly set, hash a color automatically from the hostname as a
+  fallback, in a reasonable way. Take inspiration from the ANSI_COLOR= field
+  that already exists in /etc/os-release, i.e. use the same field name and
+  syntax. When hashing the color, use the hsv_to_rgb() helper we already have,
+  fixate S and V to something reasonable and constant, and derive the H from
+  the hostname. Ultimate goal with this: give people a visual hint about the
+  system they are on if the have many to deal with, by giving each a color
+  identity. This code should be placed in hostnamed, so that clients can query
+  the color via varlink or dbus.
 
 * unify how blockdev_get_root() and sysupdate find the default root block device