RFC: root/non-root bash prompts different colours?

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:42:03PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Not all terminal devices support blink 8)
> How about making it beep every second?

Deaf users ?

More seriously there is a need to be careful with this. Nowdays many people 
remember blind users but there are still programs whose alerts can only be
set to be audio, an a lot of games where audio clues are valuable but provide
no visual equivalent.

Alan