RFC: Snappy shell

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 16/06/15 14:51, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> Repeating what I actually proposed: So, here is an idea: rather than
> redoing the whole shell, can we identify what are the winning aspects of
> that integrated shell (good help? pleasant command names? etc) and try to
> replicate that within a traditional shell?

The term "traditional" means "familiar", and it's very important to be
familiar! To me, that means offering bash, zsh, csh, etc easily to users
of the system.

That doesn't mean we should pick one of those and extend it with
snappiness, and it doesn't mean that the login experience needs to be
one of those (or all of those based on user config!). It just means that
you need to be able to get to one of those shells in a single easy
command (or maybe two if you need to install something like comfy first :).

Mark