[Bug 2057] shell should clearly indicate connectedness

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2057

Jie Kang <jkang at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jie Kang <jkang at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Omair Majid from comment #2)
> Severin suggested that it could be part of the prompt.
> 
> Something like this might work:
> 
> (D) Thermostat>
> 
> Or
> 
> (C) Thermostat>
> 
> Where D means disconnected and C means connected. Or we could get fancy and
> use unicode symbols.

I think having a symbol as part of the prompt is a good idea.


On a further note, I think it would be a good idea as well to add a shell/cli
command, or add functionality to a command, to display the connection details
(e.g current connection url) when connected.

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